AN2013 - Culture, Knowledge and Environment
Credit points: |
3 |
Year: |
2021 |
Student Contribution Band: |
Band
4
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Administered by: |
College of Arts, Society & Education |
This subject explores the key concepts and debates concerning the nature of knowledge,
how it relates to ecological and other ideological issues and the position of indigenous
knowledge systems in these concerns. Science will be examined as a culturally specific
approach to the environment and its protection and preservation. Indigenous knowledge
systems, modes of production and conceptions of technology will be explored to assess
what they may offer in terms of generating new approaches to environmental management
issues. Some of the guiding ideas relating to key concepts such as human being, nature,
ecology, civilised, wild, resource and conservation will be examined from a historical
and cultural perspective. The focus of the subject is to understand eco-cosmologies
in a variety of cultural contexts ranging from Australia to Asia and to explore the
intersection of local with global environmental politics.
Learning Outcomes
- to appreciate the diversity of knowlege systems, modes of production and conceptions
of technology and how these relate to environmental concerns;
- to become familiar with how indigenous and scientific knowledge intersect and the
extent to which bureaucratic and political contexts determine the relevance given
to each;
- to identify issues associated with culturally specific approaches to the environment
and to locate them in a broader global context;
- to understand and critique popular representations of science and place these in the
context of debates about the nature of reality;
- to view indigenous conceptual schemes and practices in a non-hierarchical manner.
Subject Assessment
- Written > Examination (centrally administered) - (40%) -
- Participation > Class participation - (20%) -
- Written > Essay (including multi-draft) 1 - (40%) - .
Assumed Knowledge:
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To undertake this subject, students must have successfully completed 12 credit points
(four subjects) of level 1 study at tertiary level
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Inadmissible Subject Combinations:
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AN3013 AND AR2415 AND AR3415 |
Note:
Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process,
and in case
of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest
official information.