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Environment and Society: Introduction - ARTS1240
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of History and Philosophy
 
 
Course Outline: http://hist-phil.arts.unsw.edu.au/currentstudents/ugoutlines.html
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Fee Band:   (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

This course will introduce the agenda of environmental issues, the scope of ecological study, principles of sustainable development and the relationship between humans and the rest of nature. It will also introduce environmental philosophies and explore how humans make choices about the environment in the face of uncertainty. The course introduces topics which will be covered in later stages of the Environmental Studies major.

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