Course Coordinator:Stefanie Fishel (sfishel@usc.edu.au) School:School of Law and Society
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Blended learning | Most of your course is on campus but you may be able to do some components of this course online. |
Online |
Online | You can do this course without coming onto campus. |
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teaching sessions and campuses where this course is usually offered.
This course examines global environmental politics by focusing on the institutions, policy frameworks, and forms of global governance related to the environment in world politics. A number of global environmental issues will be studied including climate change, biodiversity, oceans, forests and ecosystems. The focus is on global environmental policies, treaties, and institutions alongside the role of the state and civil society, and the links between globalisation and sustainability.
Activity | Hours | Beginning Week | Frequency |
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Learning materials – Weekly online materials | 1hr | Week 1 | 13 times |
Tutorial/Workshop 1 – on campus tutorial | 2hrs | Week 1 | 10 times |
Online | |||
Learning materials – Weekly online materials | 1hr | Week 1 | 13 times |
Tutorial/Workshop 1 – Online tutorial | 2hrs | Week 1 | 10 times |
Global Environmental Theory
Global Environmental Law
Global Environmental Policy
Global Environmental Activism
100 Level (Introductory)
12 units
Course Learning Outcomes On successful completion of this course, you should be able to... | Graduate Qualities Completing these tasks successfully will contribute to you becoming... | |
1 | Use critical reasoning to evaluate the way global environmental politics, governance, and policy works domestically and internationally. | Creative and critical thinker |
2 | Critique the challenges facing the global environment and our institutions. |
Empowered Ethical Sustainability-focussed |
3 | Communicate research through written and oral modes. | Engaged |
4 | Identify and describe key political and institutional bodies and their functions, roles, relationships and responsibilities in the global world order. | Knowledgeable |
Refer to the UniSC Glossary of terms for definitions of “pre-requisites, co-requisites and anti-requisites”.
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Standard Grading (GRD)
High Distinction (HD), Distinction (DN), Credit (CR), Pass (PS), Fail (FL). |
The weekly Quizzes, commencing in Week 2, will be used to provide early feedback on the understanding of the course content.
Delivery mode | Task No. | Assessment Product | Individual or Group | Weighting % | What is the duration / length? | When should I submit? | Where should I submit it? |
All | 1 | Quiz/zes | Individual | 20% | 20 minutes |
Throughout teaching period (refer to Format) | Online Test (Quiz) |
All | 2 | Examination - not Centrally Scheduled | Individual | 30% | Approximately two hours to complete exam with one week preparation time for the essay questions. |
Week 7 | Online Test (Quiz) |
All | 3 | Artefact - Creative, and Written Piece | Group | 50% | 1000-1500 |
Exam Period | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
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Goal: | You will identify key political and institutional bodies and their functions, roles, relationships and responsibilities in the global world order. |
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Format: | Weekly quizzes on readings and course materials starting in week 2. Multiple Choice questions on Canvas. |
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Generic Skills: | Information literacy |
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Goal: | This assessment is requires you to take the online quizzes and keep current on the weekly readings. This assesses the student on their comprehension of the topics covered in the forst of the first seven weeks of class. |
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Format: | 20 question mutiple choice test and essay questions submitted in Canvas. |
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Generic Skills: | Communication, Collaboration, Problem solving, Information literacy |
All - Assessment Task 3:Final Project | |||||||||||||
Goal: | To draw out and elaborate on a key topic (or topics) of the course which interest you most. |
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Product: | Artefact - Creative, and Written Piece | ||||||||||||
Format: | Final product is chosen by the student (i.e. essay, podcast, brief, speech). The sssessment needs to demonstrate that student can identify environmental problems and institutions that respond to them; show what and relations exist between groups, issues, policy, law or advocacy/activism. |
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Generic Skills: | Communication, Organisation, Applying technologies, Information literacy |
A 12-unit course will have total of 150 learning hours which will include directed study hours (including online if required), self-directed learning and completion of assessable tasks. Student workload is calculated at 12.5 learning hours per one unit.
Please note: Course information, including specific information of recommended readings, learning activities, resources, weekly readings, etc. are available on the course Canvas site– Please log in as soon as possible.
Please note that you need to have regular access to the resource(s) listed below. Resources may be required or recommended.
Required? | Author | Year | Title | Edition | Publisher |
Required | John McCormick | 2017 | Environmental Politics and Policy | n/a | Red Globe Press |
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Academic integrity is the ethical standard of university participation. It ensures that students graduate as a result of proving they are competent in their discipline. This is integral in maintaining the value of academic qualifications. Each industry has expectations and standards of the skills and knowledge within that discipline and these are reflected in assessment.
Academic integrity means that you do not engage in any activity that is considered to be academic fraud; including plagiarism, collusion or outsourcing any part of any assessment item to any other person. You are expected to be honest and ethical by completing all work yourself and indicating in your work which ideas and information were developed by you and which were taken from others. You cannot provide your assessment work to others. You are also expected to provide evidence of wide and critical reading, usually by using appropriate academic references.
In order to minimise incidents of academic fraud, this course may require that some of its assessment tasks, when submitted to Canvas, are electronically checked through Turnitin. This software allows for text comparisons to be made between your submitted assessment item and all other work to which Turnitin has access.
Eligibility for Supplementary Assessment
Your eligibility for supplementary assessment in a course is dependent of the following conditions applying:
(a) The final mark is in the percentage range 47% to 49.4%; and
(b) The course is graded using the Standard Grading scale
Late submissions may be penalised up to and including the following maximum percentage of the assessment task’s identified value, with weekdays and weekends included in the calculation of days late:
(a) One day: deduct 5%;
(b) Two days: deduct 10%;
(c) Three days: deduct 20%;
(d) Four days: deduct 40%;
(e) Five days: deduct 60%;
(f) Six days: deduct 80%;
(g) Seven days: A result of zero is awarded for the assessment task.The following penalties will apply for a late submission for an online examination:
Less than 15 minutes: No penalty
From 15 minutes to 30 minutes: 20% penalty
More than 30 minutes: 100% penalty
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