AI Use Policy

Students are required to include a "Declaration concerning AI Use" on all submissions to turnitin. If AI was used in completing the assignment the declaration will explain the ways in which AI was used. Example declarations are provided in the Assessments tab on ilearn.

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, class participation notes 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 use the Class Finder tool in eStudent to see when and where your classes are being held and if they have space.Class Finder web page link: https://students.mq.edu.au/study/enrolling/create-timetable eStudent web page link: https://student1.mq.edu.au

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

Lecture: Tuesday 3-5pm 23WW T1 Lecture theatre.

Tutorials: Tuesday 5pm or Wednesday. See timetable for details.

NOTE: Tutorials will begin in Week 1. 

External students: The lecture is digitally recorded and can be watched live or downloaded from echo360 on iLearn. Of course you are always welcome to attend weekly lectures in person too. Lecture slides will be uploaded to ilearn each week. External students are expected to participate actively in discussion on the iLearn discussion forums.

Required resources:

There is one required text for this unit:

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. The textbook should also be available for purchase through Booktopia or via a variety of other online bookstores. All other unit readings will all be available on ilearn or e-reserve.

Week 1 - Class Tuesday 29 July.  Introduction: The Politics of the 'Anthropocene'. *Tutorials commence in week 1.

Week 2 - Tuesday 5 August  International Relations Theory and Global Environmental Problems Key case study: solar geoengineering, which is the Week 3-4 class activity is introduced in the lecture this week. *In this unit you have a choice between completing 8 of the 11 weekly reading quizzes that are due on a Monday night OR as an alternative you can complete a single test based on the entire semester's readings in Week 13. If you are choosing the weekly quiz option the Week 2 reading quiz should be completed on ilearn prior to class at 11.55pm on Monday 4 August.)

Week 3 - Tuesday 12 Aug Actors in Global Environmental Politics  - Key case study: The Montreal Protocol/ Ozone Layer Depletion.  - Week 3 reading quiz due 11.55pm on Monday 11 Aug

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

Week 4 -  Tuesday 19 Aug International Environmental Regimes   - Key case study: Whaling - Reading quiz due 11.55pm on Monday 18 Aug

**Graded class participation activity due in this week's tutorial.  Class participation notes to be submitted to ilearn by 11.55pm Wednesday 20 August.**

Census date Friday 22-Aug-25

Week 5 - Tuesday 26 Aug  Intersecting Regimes: Environment, Trade and Security - Key case studies: The EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, and US tariffs on Chinese solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles. - Reading quiz due 11.55pm on Monday 25 Aug

Week 6 -  Tuesday 2 Sep. Common Pool Resources: Forests, Airsheds and Fisheries - Reading quiz due 11.55pm on Monday 1 Sept

Week 7 -   Tuesday 9 Sept. Global Public Goods: Climate change  - Reading quiz due 11.55pm on Monday 8th Sept

Week 8 -  Tuesday 16 September. Energy Security & Electricity Policy - Reading quiz due 11.55pm on Monday 15th September

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MID SEMESTER BREAK: 22 September to 6 October  

Week 9 - Tuesday 7 October. Food Security, Agriculture & Engineering Biology  - Reading quiz due 11.55pm on Monday 6th Oct

Week 10 - Tuesday 14 Oct  Biodiversity and Animal rights. - Reading quiz due 11.55pm on Monday 13th Oct

Week 11 - Tuesday 21 Oct. Capitalism, Degrowth & Socialist Modernism  - Reading quiz due 11.55pm on Monday 20 Oct

Week 12 - Tuesday 28 October - Reading week. No classes - but see ilearn for details of pre-submission essay workshops)

**Essay Due Thursday 30th October 11.55pm**

Week 13 - Tuesday 4 November  Citizenship and political change in the Anthropocene. 

Students taking a spoken reading quiz rather than the weekly quiz will schedule a 15 minute test (via zoom or in person) with the convenor during this week.