PSYC341-18S2 (C) Semester Two 2018

Environmental Psychology

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 16 July 2018
End Date: Sunday, 18 November 2018
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 27 July 2018
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 12 October 2018

Description

An introduction to Environmental Psychology, an integrative area of psychology which places particular emphasis on people-environment interrelationships and transactions, including environment-behaviour relationships, environmental perception and cognition, environmental stress and adaptive responding, cultural values, disaster preparedness and response, conservation behaviour and sustainability initiatives, and the effects of climate, ergonomics and behavioural design.

PSYC341 addresses how psychological principles can be applied to understand and help solve some of the most challenging problems facing humanity: climate change, overpopulation, resource depletion, pollution, and the loss of biodiversity.

Learning Outcomes

After completing this unit, you should be able to:
1. Demonstrate well developed knowledge of how psychological theory and methods can be used to evaluate and help solve environmental problems;
2. Examine and formulate personal views around the underlying causes of environmental problems and how psychology can be applied to solve them;
3. Recognise and describe the strengths and limitations of the major psychological approaches for addressing environmental problems; and
4. Design an intervention to solve an environmental problem using principles from the course.

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.

Prerequisites

PSYC206, OR 30 points of 100-level Psychology PLUS 15 points of relevant advanced courses approved by the Head of Department. RP: Any of BIOL112, GEOG106, GEOG107, GEOG108

Recommended Preparation

Any of BIOL112, GEOG106, GEOG107, GEOG108

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Exam 50%
Applied Project 25%
Weekly Quizzes 5%
Mid-term Test 20%


Assessment to be advised.

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Scott, Amel, Koger and Manning; Psychology for Sustainability ; 4th Edition; Routledge, 2016.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $834.00

International fee $3,788.00

* 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.

Minimum enrolments

This course will not be offered if fewer than 10 people apply to enrol.

For further information see School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing .

All PSYC341 Occurrences

  • PSYC341-18S2 (C) Semester Two 2018