Year
2021
Credit points
10
Campus offering
No unit offerings are currently available for this unit.
Prerequisites
Nil
Teaching organisation
3 hours per week for twelve weeks or equivalent.
Unit rationale, description and aim
Environmental philosophy and ethics play a central role in environmental science. This unit begins to provide a strong ethical framework by analysing the major traditions of ethical thinking about the environment with extensive reading, discussion and reflective writing. Students study the works of various writers ranging from Christian traditions to radical theories to understand the various philosophies and their influence on people. Students will begin to explore Australian Indigenous spirituality and connection with the land, and the conflict between Western and Australian Indigenous values.
