GEOG345-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025

Special Topic

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 28 September 2025

Description

Special Topic

GEOG345-25S2 CLIMATE CHANGE: RESILIENCE, ADAPTATION, TRANSFORMATION

This course explores the social, political, economic, and cultural dimensions of climate change. Students will examine how climate change impacts communities across different scales and regions, how places can become more resilient to climate change, how communities can adapt to climate change, and how society and the economy might be transformed to address climate change and its causes.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

1. Understand the key issues around human dimensions of climate change
2. Analyse how social, economic, and political factors shape community resilience and climate adaptation and mitigation strategies
3. Apply geographical concepts and theories to analyse and explain the consequences, causes, and strategies of human dimensions of climate change
4. Critically reflect on the state of knowledge and action on social, political, economic, and cultural dimensions of climate change
5. Communicate knowledge about complex climate-society interactions effectively

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Employable, innovative and enterprising

Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.

Prerequisites

30 points of 200-level Geography or entry with the approval of the Head of Department.

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 14:00 - 16:00 Psychology - Sociology 115
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
Tutorial A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Thursday 15:00 - 16:00 John Britten 117 HP Seminar Room
21 Jul - 17 Aug
8 Sep - 28 Sep
6 Oct - 12 Oct
02 Thursday 16:00 - 17:00 John Britten 117 HP Seminar Room
21 Jul - 17 Aug
8 Sep - 28 Sep
6 Oct - 12 Oct

Timetable Note

One 2-hour lecture per week
One 1-hour tutorial per week (for 8 weeks of the course)

Course Coordinator

Mark Cooper

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Reading Responses 20% Once per week (day tbc) by 5:00pm, across ten weeks (worth 10 x 2% each)
Report 1 22 Aug 2025 30%
Report 2 03 Oct 2025 30%
Course reflection essay 17 Oct 2025 20%


There is no final exam for this course.

Textbooks / Resources

Course handouts, readings, and lecture materials will be available on the GEOG345 LEARN page for each week of the course. There is no single textbook for the course.

Notes

Prerequisites
30 points of 200-level GEOG or ENVR courses; or 30 points of 200-level courses from SOCI, POLS, ANTH, HLTH

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $998.00

International fee $5,188.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Earth and Environment on the departments and faculties page .

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  • GEOG345-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025