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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

312328 (v.1) Building Sustainable Futures 312

Area: School of Social Sciences and Asian Languages
Credits: 50.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Seminar: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 312588 (v.2) Sustainable Livelihoods 212 or any previous version
AND
312589 (v.2) 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 sustainable development.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 010799 Earth Sciences not elsewhere classified
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 2     Y    
2012 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