Environment and Knowledge (HPSC90010)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2025
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This subject examines various ways of knowing the environment. Students develop an understanding of the unprecedented transformation in the environment, the sciences, and in politics around environment and knowledge across the twentieth century. As part of their assessment students will study the knowledge practices of a particular environmental organisation becoming sensitised to historical, political and cultural influences on environmental knowledge.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Become aware of new understandings of knowledge that are developing in response to the perceived complexity of environmental knowledge
- Become acquainted with theories and concepts that will enable them to think critically about characteristics that are required for efficacious environmental knowledge.
Generic skills
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Develop skills in critical ethnographic practice
- Develop advanced skills in narrative research methods, writing, and making oral presentations.
Last updated: 4 March 2025