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Learning Outcomes

1.
Collaborate effectively with others
  • Professionals
  • Leaders
2.
Exhibit initiative and self-direction
  • Professionals
  • Leaders
3.
Act ethically, respectfully and responsibly
  • Professionals
  • Scholars
  • Global Citizens
4.
Engage proactively with complex problems in professional practice and/or scholarship
  • Professionals
  • Scholars
5.
Explain the ways in which environmental issues are implicated with knowledge claims, social and cultural practices, and fundamental questions of politics, meaning, value and ethics
  • Global Citizens
  • Scholars
6.
Describe the historical evolution of knowledge claims regarding the environment and society
  • Scholars
7.
Identify the value of cross-disciplinary perspectives to contemporary environmental challenges
  • Scholars
8.
Undertake rigorous and engaged scholarly enquiry and analysis
  • Professionals
  • Scholars
9.
Communicate and debate complex ideas in a range of different contexts using a variety of suitable media
  • Leaders
  • Scholars
  • Professionals
10.
Critically and creatively employ disciplinary bodies of knowledge and appraise disciplinary perspectives in professional practice and/or scholarship
  • Professionals
  • Scholars
11.
Justify a position in relation to foundational aspects of society, culture and/or the arts
  • Global Citizens
  • Professionals
  • Scholars
12.
Continuously acquire knowledge and skills and reflect on existing knowledge and skills for personal and career fulfilment
  • Scholars
  • Professionals
  • Leaders

Graduate Capabilities

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Available in Program(s)
Single degree program(s) in which this specialisation is available:

Bachelor of Arts - BA3409 - Arts
Bachelor of Social Research and Policy - BSRP3420 - Social Research and Policy
Bachelor of Arts and Business - BArts (Bus)3444 - Arts and Business

Specialisation Structure
60 Units of Credit:

Students must complete 60 UOC.

ARTS/EDUCATION (SECONDARY) STUDENTS

The major in Environmental Humanities must not be taken as it is not an approved teaching specialisation.

Level 1 Core Courses

You must take 12 UOC of the following courses.

ARTS1240
6 UOC
Environment and Society
ARTS1241
6 UOC
Environmental Advocacy and Activism

Level 2 Core Courses

You must take 6 UOC of the following courses.

ARTS2242
6 UOC
The Politics of Climate Change

Level 3 Core Courses

You must take 6 UOC of the following courses.

ARTS3240
6 UOC
Environmental Humanities Capstone

Level 2 Prescribed Electives

You must take 18 UOC of the following courses.

ARTS2240
6 UOC
Environment, Sustainability and Development
ARTS2243
6 UOC
Waste and Society
ARTS2244
6 UOC
Rethinking Wildlife: Philosophy, Biodiversity, Extinction
ARTS2247
6 UOC
Indigenous People and the Environment
ARTS2248
6 UOC
Disasters and Society

Level 3 Prescribed Electives

You must take 18 UOC of the following courses.

ARTS3241
6 UOC
Environmental Justice
ARTS3242
6 UOC
Environmental History
ARTS3245
6 UOC
Public Relations and the Environment
ATSI3003
6 UOC
Indigenous Cultural Heritage and the Environment
ARTS3243
6 UOC
Remaking Nature: The Politics of Biotechnology
DART3330
6 UOC
Art and the Anthropocene

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