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: Thursday 9-11 - 17WW G02 Lecture Theatre (Michael Kirby Law School Buidling)

Tutorials: Thursday 12pm (11WW 180 Tutorial Room) 1pm (11WW 180 Tutorial Room) 2pm (11WW 170 Tutorial Room). See timetable for details.

NOTE: Tutorials will begin in Week 1. 

OUA 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/OUA 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. The textbook should also be available for purchase through online bookstores (e.g. Booktopia). All other unit readings will all be available on ilearn or e-reserve.

Week 1 - Class Thursday 30 July.  Introduction: The Politics of the 'Anthropocene'. *Tutorials commence in week 1.

Week 2 - Thursday 6 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. 

Week 3 - Thursday 13 Aug Actors in Global Environmental Politics  Key case study: The Montreal Protocol/ Ozone Layer Depletion.  

Week 4 -  Thursday 20 Aug International Environmental Regimes  Key case study: Whaling

**Graded class participation activity opening session commences in this week's tutorial.  You are primarily assessed on notes submitted to ilearn by 11.55pm Friday 4 September, but these notes will reflect on your actions in the 20 August tutorial (or discussion board for external students) **

Census date Friday 21-Aug-26

Week 5 - Thursday 27 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. 

Week 6 -  Thursday 3 Sep. Common Pool Resources: Forests, Airsheds and Fisheries 

Week 7 -   Thursday 10 Sept. Global Public Goods: Climate change  

Week 8 -  Thursday 17 September. Energy Security & Electricity Supply

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MID SEMESTER BREAK: 21-Sept — 5-Oct-26

Week 9 - Thursday 8 October. Food, Agriculture & Engineering Biology 

Week 10 - Thursday 15 Oct  Biodiversity and Animal rights. 

Week 11 - Thursday 22 Oct. Capitalism, Degrowth & Socialist Modernism  

Week 12 - Thursday 29 October - Citizenship & decision-making in the Anthropocene. 

Week 13 - Thursday 5 November  - Conclusion

Viva-voce spoken exams to be scheduled between 30 October and 13 November.