PSYC341-17S2 (C) Semester Two 2017

Environmental Psychology

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 July 2017
End Date: Sunday, 19 November 2017
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 28 July 2017
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 13 October 2017

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.

Learning Outcomes

  • At the completion of this course, students will be able to:
  • Demonstrate understanding of the key theories in environmental psychology.
  • Demonstrate the ability to apply those theories to human behaviour in the environment.
  • Demonstrate the ability to critically challenge the different environmental psychology theories.
  • Demonstrate the ability to conduct environmental psychology research.
  • Demonstrate the ability to report environmental psychology research.

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

Contact Person

Megan Blakely

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Lab Assignments 40%
Article Reviews 10%
Final Exam 50%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Bell, P.A., Greene, T., Fisher, J., & Baum, A; Environmental Psychology ; 5th Ed; Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005.

Course links

Library portal

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $817.00

International fee $3,525.00

* 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

  • PSYC341-17S2 (C) Semester Two 2017