312328 (v.1) Building Sustainable Futures 312

Area:	School of Social Sciences and Asian Languages
Credits:	50.0
Contact Hours:	3.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Seminar:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	312588 (v.1) Sustainable Livelihoods 212 or any previous version AND 312589 (v.1) Sustainable Environments 211 or any previous version
Syllabus:	This unit examines some of the global challenges of the 21st Century through 'doing' as well as 'reading' research about sustainable development. Topics covered could include, for example, the environmental, social and economic implications of an increasing global population, the increasingly inequitable distribution of wealth between and within nations, the global, national and local implications of climate change, and the challenges facing both urban, rural and regional regions in terms of sustainabledevelopment.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	010799 Earth Sciences not elsewhere classified
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Essential *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
2010	Bentley Campus	Semester 2			Y
2010	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	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