302475 (v.4) SS 542 Sustainability through Deliberative Democracy
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| Area: | School of Social Sciences and Asian Languages |
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| Credits: | 25.0 |
| Contact Hours: | 2.0 |
| Seminar: | 1 x 2 Hours Weekly |
| Syllabus: | Sustainability will depend on the good will and creative energy of all elements of society working together. Achieving this will not be easy. This short course will focus on one potential way forward – the implementation of deliberative democracy. Rather than being an alternative to our current system of representative democracy (the election of the few to represent our interests), it is proposed that deliberative democracy could significantly augment it by including the reasoned voice of inclusive, representative participants, engaged in deliberative dialogue, empowered to influence decision-making. This course is essentially practical, ie students will learn how and when to run a variety of deliberative democracy techniques including the citizens’ jury, consensus forum, deliberative poll/survey, 21st century town meeting/dialogue, multi criteria analysis conference, world café and open space technology. Students will also be expected to lead, help organise, facilitate or participate in a deliberative engagement of community members. |
| Field of Education: | 090300 Studies in Human Society (Narrow Grouping) |
| Result Type: | Grade/Mark |
Availability
| Year | Location | Period | Internal | Partially Online Internal | Area External | Central External | Fully Online |
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| 2012 | Bentley Campus | Study Period 4 | Y |
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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
