Late Assessment Submission Penalty  

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark) will be applied each day a written assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends). After the 7th day, a mark of ‘0’ (zero) will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. Submission time for all written assessments is set at 11.55pm. A 1-hour grace period is provided to students who experience a technical issue.    

This late penalty will apply to non-timed sensitive assessment (incl essays, reports, posters, portfolios, journals, recordings etc). Late submission of time sensitive tasks (such as tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, scheduled practical assessments/labs etc) will only be addressed by the unit convenor in a Special consideration application. Special Consideration outcome may result in a new question or topic. 

Delivery

For lecture times and classrooms please consult the MQ Timetable website: http://www.timetables.mq.edu.au. This website will display up-to-date information on your classes and classroom locations. At the time of publication we are planning for all lectures and on-campus tutorials to be live. However, announcements will be made on ilearn if it becomes necessary to move classes online at any point).

Internal students are expected to attend the following classes each week:

Lecture: Thursday 9-11am 4 Western Rd - 320 Tutorial Rm 

Tutorials: Thursday 11am or 1pm. 

NOTE: Tutorials will begin in Week 1. 

External students: The lecture is digitally recorded and can be downloaded from iLearn. You will also find lecture slides on ilearn.

External students are required to participate actively in discussion on the iLearn discussion forums (further details are given in the section on Assessment.)

External students are welcome to attend weekly lectures whenever they can.  

Required resources:

There is one required text for this unit which should be available for purchase through Booktopia or via a variety of other online bookstores; 

O’Neill, Kate (2016 2nd Edition) The Environment and International Relations. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press. If you have access to a copy of the first edition (2009) that will also be sufficient.

Access to this text will be necessary in order to complete the reading quizzes. The library does have an electronic copy of this text. However, access through the library cannot be guaranteed at all times - so if you plan to rely on the library copy make sure you complete readings well ahead of quizzes being due. All other unit readings will all be available on ilearn or e-reserve.

Week 1 - Class Thursday 28 July

Introduction: Green Political Theory, Globalisation and the 'Anthropocene'.

*Tutorials commence in week 1 in this unit.

Week 2 - Thursday 4 Aug (Reading quiz due prior to class at 11pm on Wednesday 3 Aug)

International Relations Theory and Global Environmental Problems

Case study: Week 3-4 class activity on solar geoengineering is introduced in the Lecture and Tutorial this week.

First week of weekly ilearn reading quizzes that must be completed by Wednesday 10pm each week (the evening before the lecture). 

Week 3 - Thursday 11 Aug (Reading quiz due 11pm Wednesday10 Aug) 

Actors: States, Professional Communities, NGOs, Multinational Corporations & the public. 

Case Study: The Montreal Protocol/ Ozone Layer Depletion.

NB: Please nominate which research question you will address this week via the iLearn discussion forum.

Week 4 -  18 Aug (Reading quiz due 11pm 17 Aug) 

International Environmental Regimes  Case Study: Whaling.

**Graded class participation activity due in this week's tutorial.  Class participation notes to be submitted to ilearn by 11.55pm 19 August.**

Week 5 - 25 Aug (Reading quiz due 11pm Wednesday 24 Aug)

Intersecting Regimes: Environment, Trade and Security

Week 6 -  1 Sept (Reading quiz due 11pm Wednesday 31 Aug)

Common Pool Resources: Forests, Airsheds and Fisheries

Week 7 - 8 Sept (Reading quiz due 11pm Wednesday 7 Sept)

Global Public Goods: Climate change 

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MID SEMESTER BREAK: 12 to 25 September 

Week 8 - Thursday 29 September (Reading quiz due 11pm Wednesday 28 September).

Energy Security & Electricity Policy

Week 9 - 6 October. (Reading quiz due 11pm Wednesday 5 Oct).

Food Security & Agriculture

Week 10 - Reading and Essay-Writing Week - No Classes and no Reading Quiz

**Essay Due Tuesday 18th October 5pm **

Week 11 - 20 Oct (Reading quiz due 11pm Wednesday 19 Oct)

Biodiversity and Animal rights.

Week 12 - 25 Oct (Reading quiz due 11pm Wednesday 24 Oct)

Capitalism, Degrowth & Socialist Modernism 

Week 13 - 1 November (reading quiz due 11pm Wednesday 31 October)

Citizenship and social movements in the Anthropocene.