SPCO126-22S1 (C) Semester One 2022

Land Journeys and Ethics

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 21 February 2022
End Date: Sunday, 26 June 2022
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 6 March 2022
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 15 May 2022

Description

Informed by experiential education approaches, students will complete a weekend backpacking trip with instructors as part of the overall course and use reflections from these experiences, in conjunction with coursework on human-nature relationships, to critically analyse and develop a personal land ethic. The field trip explores the concept of wilderness in land ethics through a direct experience of actual wilderness. The course has a focus on bi-culturally competent and globally connected understandings of the relationships between humans and nature.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
1. Describe the historical development of land ethics.  
2. Investigate environmental, bicultural and socio-cultural aspects of human-land relationships
3. Critically examine the influence of different journeys on human-land relationships.  
4. Identify how particular land ethics have influenced local and global scale environmental problems.
5. Develop and explore a personal land ethic informed by the research literature.
6. Understand and apply risk management strategies to enhance personal and group safety.

Restrictions

TEPE112

Timetable Note

The requirement for the field trip components of the course will be modified based on UC guidelines around COVID.  

Field Trips
All students will attend one of the 3 compulsory field trip weekends.
In semester 1 occurrences, these field trips are offered in weeks 3, 4 & 5.
In semester 2 occurrences, the field trips are offered in weeks 9, 10 & 11.  

Students are able to select the field trip date that best suits them depending on availability.  If attendance on the field trips is not possible due to sport or other commitments, students will need to select a different occurrence or delay a year.

Course Coordinator

Chris North

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Presentation 30% A presentation on a skill or the ecological and/or historical significance of a place on the field trip. Due date TBA.
Forum posts and online activities 10% Weekly
Essay 03 Jun 2022 60% An essay on the relationship between journeying and the development of a land ethic.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $799.00

International fee $3,600.00

* 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.

For further information see School of Health Sciences .

All SPCO126 Occurrences

  • SPCO126-22S1 (C) Semester One 2022
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