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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

312597 (v.2) Sustainability: Sociocultural Perspectives 223

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Area: School of Social Sciences and Asian Languages
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: This unit examines what people of diverse cultural and social backgrounds understand by sustainability. It looks at how they are affected by and respond to state, market and wider community strategies to bring about more sustainable ways of living. Some of the main topics may include: the idea of sustainability in social science; the relationship between social, cultural and environmental notions of sustainability; how people understand and relate to the natural world; the social and cultural meaning of sustainable development; and sustainable bodies. Case materials will be drawn from Australia and its region.
Field of Education: 090300 Studies in Human Society (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Supplemental
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External