| Credit |
6 points |
| Availability |
Semester 1, Semester 2 (see Timetable) |
| Outcomes |
Students (1) apply various disciplinary tools to quantify and qualitatively appreciate human wellbeing; (2) apply various disciplinary measures of global sustainability; (3) become competent in collaborative online inquiry; and (4) develop scenarios for future lifestyle change. |
| Content |
Burgeoning population growth, environmental pollution and overuse of world resources are forcing changes to how we live and what we value. This unit considers world values and motivations and what lifestyles are possible for the 6.8 billion inhabitants of the planet. It investigates quality of life indices and prospects for equitable access to resources in the twenty-first century. |
| Assessment |
This is based on a portfolio of activities (50 per cent), an assignment including website production (25 per cent) and contribution to group activities (25 per cent).
Supplementary assessment is not available in this unit. |
| Unit Co-ordinator(s) |
Professor Neville Bruce |
| Location |
UWA (Crawley) |
| Mode |
on-campus (blended learning) and online |
| Unit Rules |
| Prerequisites: completion of or concurrent enrolment in IHST8801 Orientation to Integrated Human Studies; and normally follows completion of IHST8802 Emergence of Twenty-first-century Humanity, IHST8809 Dimensions of the Human Experience and IHST8810 Technologies, Economies and Ecologies of the Twenty-first Century |
Contact hours—online: no formal contact hours. Students are able to seek assistance by email or phone and interact through discussion groups on the unit website. On-campus (blended learning) students may substitute tutorials for the discussion group online interaction. Students are expected to spend approximately 40 hours working through the online learning modules, readings and group interaction. Some additional study time is recommended.
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| Unit web page |
http://www.unitoutlines.science.uwa.edu.au/Units/IHST8811
[Some unit web pages are still under construction and will be available in 2010.]
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- The availability of units in Semester 1, 2, etc. was correct at the time of going to press but may be subject to change.
- Assistance with study skills, including English language skills, is available free of charge from Student Services for all enrolled students (see http://www.studentservices.uwa.edu.au/ss/learning). Student Services location: Second Floor, South Wing, Guild Village; telephone: 6488 2423.
- Books and other materials wherever listed may be subject to change. Book lists relating to 'Preliminary Reading', 'Recommended Reading' and 'Textbooks' are, in most cases, available at the University Co-operative Bookshop (from early January) and appropriate administrative offices for students to consult. For first-year units the Bookshop will endeavour to make available photocopies of book lists for individual units. Books marked with an asterisk (*) are available in paperback.
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