Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit convenor
Emily O'Gorman
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Room B452, Level 4, 25B Wally's Walk
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Lecturer
Jessica McLean
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Tutor
Sarah Prebble
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Credit points |
Credit points
10
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
130cp
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
The Anthropocene is a proposed new geological epoch in which humanity is driving planetary change. This unit explores how environmental decision making and planning processes can be made more just in the context of the Anthropocene. It draws on perspectives from environmental justice, a field of research and activism focused on addressing the social and geographic inequities associated with environmental change. Environmental justice highlights how responsibility for, and the burdens of, environmental degradation are unevenly distributed across space and scale, and divided between and within social categories such as race, class, gender, ethnicity and species. Environmental justice and decision-making are analysed through a series of case studies that are presented by academic staff and environmental professionals. An important component of the unit focuses on developing analytical and practical skills for pursuing environmental justice, which requires the ability to synthesise geographic information from the social and physical sciences and engage with multiple stakeholders, decision making tools, and forms of communication. The unit makes the relationships between justice and environment more visible in a world of rapid environmental change and provides pathways and tools for pursuing more just and resilient futures. |
Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
All written assessments are to be submitted via Turnitin, the university online submission and marking system - found as a link in iLearn. Turnitin includes Grademark, a paperless grading system where your written assessments are marked by staff online. Submissions are also checked for plagiarism by Turnitin. Turnitin automatically compares your work to the work of your classmates, previous students and material available on the internet. Hard copies of assignments are no longer accepted and will not be marked.
For more information on Turnitin and Grademark: http://mq.edu.au/iLearn/student_info/assignments.htm
DEADLINES, EXTENSIONS AND PENALTIES
Deadlines set for assessment submissions will not be altered except in exceptional circumstances. In all cases, extensions must be supported with appropriate documentation (medical certificate, counsellor's certificate, statutory declaration). All extensions must be applied for and granted through the special consideration process. See the Special Consideration Policy https://students.mq.edu.au/study/my-study-program/special-consideration
Extensions will not be granted in cases of poor time management. Only the Unit Convenor can authorise extensions.
Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, (a) a penalty for lateness will apply – 10 marks out of 100 credit will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date – and (b) no assignment will be accepted more than seven (7) days (incl. weekends) after the original submission deadline. No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments – e.g. quizzes, online tests.
Students who fail to complete and submit ALL assessments for the unit may not receive enough marks to pass the unit. Penalties will also be incurred for plagiarism, that is, the use of another persons’ work and presentation as your own (see University Policies and http://www.mq.edu.au/ policy/docs/academic_honesty/policy.html).
GRADING
Each written assessment will be marked, commented upon and returned to you via Turnitin and Grademark. Grading is conducted in line with the Universitiy's grading policy (http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/grading/policy.html)
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Environmental Justice Assessment Report | 30% | No | 5pm 3 June |
Environmental Justice Essay | 20% | No | 5pm 8 April |
Team based learning task | 30% | No | Weeks 4, 6, 11 |
Tutorial participation task | 20% | No | Weeks 2-13 |
Assessment Type 1: Report
Indicative Time on Task 2: 50 hours
Due: 5pm 3 June
Weighting: 30%
Students are required to write a report that assesses a recent or upcoming environmental decision or plan from the perspective of environmental justice. The report is to be written as a brief for an environmental justice organisation (2000 words).
Assessment Type 1: Essay
Indicative Time on Task 2: 25 hours
Due: 5pm 8 April
Weighting: 20%
This short essay asks students to explore an environmental justice concept and apply it to a case study (1000 words).
Assessment Type 1: Quiz/Test
Indicative Time on Task 2: 12 hours
Due: Weeks 4, 6, 11
Weighting: 30%
Three team based learning multiple choice quizzes will take place to test student learning and build communication skills.
Assessment Type 1: Participatory task
Indicative Time on Task 2: 0 hours
Due: Weeks 2-13
Weighting: 20%
Small tasks completed in tutorials related to unit content. Many of these activities will be scaffolding for the other assignments.
1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:
2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation
Technology
This unit has a website which is accessible via www.mq.edu.au/iLearn. Here you can get access to unit materials including recording of lectures, copies of lecture slides, notices and a general discussion place to pose questions to staff.
Students are not required to acquire any specific technology for this unit but are expected to access the iLearn site and to use computers to produce their assignments.
Lecture and tutorials
This unit runs as a series of weekly lectures, and a tutorial program (1 session weekly). Recording of lectures will be made available on iLearn through Echo360. Copies of lecture slides will also be made available through iLearn.
Students will need to enrol in a weekly tutorial and attend the same tutorial session each week. Tutorial registraition is via eStudent.
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Lecture Schedule (subject to change) |
Tutorial |
Assessments |
Introducing environmental justice
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1
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Environmental justice and decision making in the Anthropocene (EO)
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No tutorials |
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2
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Environmental justice: theory, concepts and activism (EO)
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Environmental justice |
Team based learning activity test-run (trial only; not marked)
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3
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Intersectional environments (JM)
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Experiencing intersectionality
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4
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Environmental justice case study (EO)
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Justice in the Anthropocene
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Team based learning assessment
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Environmental justice and decision making tools and approaches
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5
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Environmental justice decision making tools and approaches (JM)
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Systems mapping
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6
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Environmental justice tools and approaches (EO)
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Spatial analysis and storytelling
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Team based learning assessment
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Environmental Justice in Australia |
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7
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Environmental justice in Australia – planning and law (JM)
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Analysing plans and decisions
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Environmental justice essay due
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Mid-session break |
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8
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Indigenous peoples and environmental decision making (JM)
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Indigenous resistance to environmental justice
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Environmental justice case studies and futures
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9
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Forest justice (JM)
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Regional Forest Agreement
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10
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Digital technologies and EJ (JM)
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Digital technologies and EJ
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11 |
Climate justice (EO) |
Climate justice
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Team based learning assessment
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12 |
Multispecies justice (EO) |
Multispecies justice
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Just futures for the Anthropocene (EO)
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Hopeful futures
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Environmental justice assessment report due
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Date | Description |
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15/02/2022 | Included unit schedule |
Unit information based on version 2022.03 of the Handbook