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SUST2001: Sustainability and Society
2024 unit information
Environmental sustainability is a core concern for society. But what sustainability is, does, or ought to do, often remains intangible and ill-defined. This unit explores the social dimensions of sustainability. While we have a lot of the technical knowledge about how to be sustainable, the transition to a more sustainable society requires sustained social analysis. Students are familiarized with critical approaches to the study of sustainability from a social science and humanities perspective. Modules investigate the emergence of sustainability; political and economic dimensions; the role of science and law; and the relationship of sustainability policies to global inequalities.
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Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Sociology and Criminology |
| Credit points | 6 |
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SUST1001 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Demonstrate an advanced understanding of theoretical approaches to the social study of sustainability
- LO2. Display a critical capacity to relate these theories to appropriate methods and techniques applicable to sustainability issues
- LO3. Assimilate, organize, and critically analyze a corpus of academic materials related to the sustainability-society nexus
- LO4. Display strong personal and intellectual autonomy, and interpersonal and communicative skills
- LO5. Identify and describe one’s own position on major issues of controversy in contemporary debates on sustainability
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