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Last updated: 4 March 2022
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Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
1 x 1 hour seminar per week, 1 x 1 hour studio per week.
Online independent and collaborative learning including 1 x 1 hour seminar per week, 1 x 1 hour workshop per week.
This unit has been developed to give students broad understanding of global environmental issues such as climate change, ozone depletion, population stress, ocean pollution and loss of biodiversity from a systems perspective and how they may influence the natural and human environment. Students will be asked to consider the impacts of these global issues at local, regional and global levels and understand how environmental engineering plays a role in delivering solutions for a sustainable future. Students will work individually and in teams to identify, understand and analyse local contexts of complex global issues and identify the risks and future implications of those issues. At the completion of the unit students will be able to assess and critique current solutions and directions from an environmental engineering perspective and recognise the complexity of the problem.
Demonstrate an understanding of key global environmental issues and proposed control or mitigation strategies in a local and regional context and considering diverse social and cultural perspectives.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilitiesGLO5: Problem solvingGLO8: Global citizenship
ULO2
Analyse the implications of global issues from a systems perspective and the ways in which they interrelate.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilitiesGLO4: Critical thinkingGLO5: Problem solving
ULO3
Critique current directions and solutions to global environmental issues and assess the suitability of solutions to specific local environments.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilitiesGLO2: CommunicationGLO4: Critical thinking
ULO4
Work within a team to formulate and justify an engineering position related to a complex, real world problem.
GLO2: CommunicationGLO7: Teamwork
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
To be eligible to obtain a pass this unit, a student must achieve a mark of at least 40% on the initial report and a mark of at least 50% on the final report.
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: SEV101 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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