SENS101-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025

Introduction to the Principles and Concepts of Sustainability

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 2 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 May 2025

Description

Sustainability is a popular but contested concept. At its most basic it refers to the maintenance of systems, processes, and/or practices over time. This foundation course introduces students to transdisciplinary ways of understanding the contested history of ideas about sustainability in diverse fields of socio-ecological politics, and philosophy, Indigenous knowledge and environmental law, governance and leadership, and economics and environmental management. Taught through four modules, the course will include a one day Marae field trip and small group field work. A pastoral emphasis supports cohort building and communication skills for advocacy and analysis.

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Reading reflection 24 Mar 2023 20% 1500-1800 words excluding referencing
Short essay 05 May 2023 20% 1500-2000 words
Field report 30% a) Oral presentation, 5 mins (with 3 power point slides) (10%) due week 29 May-2 June b) Written report of 1800-2000 words excluding references (20%) due 2 June:
End of semester test 30% End of semester test

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $947.00

International fee $4,053.00

* 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 Language, Social and Political Sciences .

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