EUB251 Environment and Society
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| Unit code: | EUB251 |
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| Equivalent(s): | CRB110 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $2,040 |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $3,024 |
| International unit fee | $4,224 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | EUB251 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | CRB110 |
| Coordinator: | Sarah Adams | sarah.adams@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit provides an applied geography approach to understand the dynamic nature of interactions between people and their environments, and the ways environments influence people's attitudes, perceptions, choices and decisions. This is a skills-based unit that provides an opportunity to transform, represent and analyse geographical data and information to recognise spatial and temporal patterns and trends and explain how these represent contemporary geographical challenges.
The skills developed in this unit are applicable across a range of other academic geography and social science subjects and are utilised by specialists in a diverse range of professions including economists, demographers, spatial technicians, criminologists, environmental analysists and managers, urban and regional planners and those in hazard management professions.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Understand ways in which people interact with their environments and the impact of these interactions for people's decision making.
- Interpret and analyse geographic data and information to recognise spatial and temporal patterns and trends represented in data.
- Synthesise data and information from a range of sources.
- Identify and evaluate responses to geographical challenges at a range of scales.
- Select, transform and represent geographical data in a range of graphic and cartographic forms using appropriate technologies and suitable for use in a visual text.
- Demonstrate effective communication using geographical terminology, cartographic and graphic representations as appropriate.
Content
You will develop a range of skills associated with the transformation, representation and analysis of geographic information and data to explain contemporary geographical challenges. With a focus on the interaction between people and their environments this unit encompasses a systems approach across a range of geographic scales from global to local.
Content:
- Natural and human systems and the geographical process that shape the identity of places and result in spatial patterns;
- Factors affecting the spatial and temporal patterns and trends of natural and human landscapes;
- Patterns and processes resulting land cover transformation and the implications for people and places;
- Impacts of land cover transformation including carbon sequestration and albedo;
- Climate, climate drivers and climate change;
- Population, population movement and change, population momentum;
- Natural hazard zones, risk and vulnerability factors in hazard zones;
- The responses to geographical challenges; and
- Using models and modelling, maps and data, spatial and other technologies.
Learning Approaches
In this unit you will learn through engaging in the following:
- Lectures;
- Tutorials with a student-centred approach to learning;
- Practical activities to develop skills in data transformation, representation, interpretation and analysis; and
- Using various technologies, including spatial technologies.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will gain feedback in this unit by participating in weekly tutorials and completing the practical activities and by evaluating your achievement in attaining the learning goals established throughout the course. You will also receive summative, written feedback on Assessment 1 where the Learning Outcomes 1-6 will be represented in criterion.
Feedback sources
- Self
- Peer
- Academic
Assessment
Overview
Assessment in this course provides the opportunity to exhibit achievement across the Learning Outcomes 1-6 in two assessment instruments, a research assignment and an examination.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Infographic
An infographic is a data driven, visual representation of a specific issue. You will select a contemporary geographical issue related to the subject matter studied in the unit and represent this in a visual text (infographic) to show your understanding of the interactions between people and their environment and the impact of those interactions.
This task will assess your:
1. Understanding of the ways in which people interact with their environments and the impact of these interactions.
2. Interpretation and analysis of geographic data and information.
3. Recognition of spatial and temporal patterns and trends represented in data.
4. Understanding of responses to a geographical challenge
5. Synthesis of data and information from a range of sources.
6. Effective communication by selecting, transforming and representing geographical data in a range of suitable graphic and cartographic forms, using appropriate technologies.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Examination (written)
Examination (practical and short response)
An examination comprised of:
1. Practical exercises that require data transformation and representation utilising common practices as included in the learning activities within the unit.
2. Short responses interpreting and analysing the data transformations completed in the practical exercises.
This task will assess your:
1. Transformation and representation of geographical data in a range of suitable graphic and cartographic forms.
2. Interpretation and analysis of geographic data and information.
3. Recognition of spatial and temporal patterns and trends represented in data.
4. Effective communication using geographical terminology cartographic and graphic representations as appropriate.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the-ordinary risks associated with general participation in this unit. Workplace Health and Safety protocols associated with computer use will apply.
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Online
| Unit code: | EUB251 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | CRB110 |
Overview
This unit provides an applied geography approach to understand the dynamic nature of interactions between people and their environments, and the ways environments influence people's attitudes, perceptions, choices and decisions. This is a skills-based unit that provides an opportunity to transform, represent and analyse geographical data and information to recognise spatial and temporal patterns and trends and explain how these represent contemporary geographical challenges.
The skills developed in this unit are applicable across a range of other academic geography and social science subjects and are utilised by specialists in a diverse range of professions including economists, demographers, spatial technicians, criminologists, environmental analysists and managers, urban and regional planners and those in hazard management professions.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Understand ways in which people interact with their environments and the impact of these interactions for people's decision making.
- Interpret and analyse geographic data and information to recognise spatial and temporal patterns and trends represented in data.
- Synthesise data and information from a range of sources.
- Identify and evaluate responses to geographical challenges at a range of scales.
- Select, transform and represent geographical data in a range of graphic and cartographic forms using appropriate technologies and suitable for use in a visual text.
- Demonstrate effective communication using geographical terminology, cartographic and graphic representations as appropriate.
Content
You will develop a range of skills associated with the transformation, representation and analysis of geographic information and data to explain contemporary geographical challenges. With a focus on the interaction between people and their environments this unit encompasses a systems approach across a range of geographic scales from global to local.
Content:
- Natural and human systems and the geographical process that shape the identity of places and result in spatial patterns;
- Factors affecting the spatial and temporal patterns and trends of natural and human landscapes;
- Patterns and processes resulting land cover transformation and the implications for people and places;
- Impacts of land cover transformation including carbon sequestration and albedo;
- Climate, climate drivers and climate change;
- Population, population movement and change, population momentum;
- Natural hazard zones, risk and vulnerability factors in hazard zones;
- The responses to geographical challenges; and
- Using models and modelling, maps and data, spatial and other technologies.
Learning Approaches
In this unit you will learn through engaging in the following:
- Lectures;
- Tutorials with a student-centred approach to learning;
- Practical activities to develop skills in data transformation, representation, interpretation and analysis; and
- Using various technologies, including spatial technologies.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will gain feedback in this unit by participating in weekly tutorials and completing the practical activities and by evaluating your achievement in attaining the learning goals established throughout the course. You will also receive summative, written feedback on Assessment 1 where the Learning Outcomes 1-6 will be represented in criterion.
Feedback sources
- Self
- Peer
- Academic
Assessment
Overview
Assessment in this course provides the opportunity to exhibit achievement across the Learning Outcomes 1-6 in two assessment instruments, a research assignment and an examination.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Infographic
An infographic is a data driven, visual representation of a specific issue. You will select a contemporary geographical issue related to the subject matter studied in the unit and represent this in a visual text (infographic) to show your understanding of the interactions between people and their environment and the impact of those interactions.
This task will assess your:
1. Understanding of the ways in which people interact with their environments and the impact of these interactions.
2. Interpretation and analysis of geographic data and information.
3. Recognition of spatial and temporal patterns and trends represented in data.
4. Understanding of responses to a geographical challenge
5. Synthesis of data and information from a range of sources.
6. Effective communication by selecting, transforming and representing geographical data in a range of suitable graphic and cartographic forms, using appropriate technologies.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Examination (written)
Examination (practical and short response)
An examination comprised of:
1. Practical exercises that require data transformation and representation utilising common practices as included in the learning activities within the unit.
2. Short responses interpreting and analysing the data transformations completed in the practical exercises.
This task will assess your:
1. Transformation and representation of geographical data in a range of suitable graphic and cartographic forms.
2. Interpretation and analysis of geographic data and information.
3. Recognition of spatial and temporal patterns and trends represented in data.
4. Effective communication using geographical terminology cartographic and graphic representations as appropriate.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the-ordinary risks associated with general participation in this unit. Workplace Health and Safety protocols associated with computer use will apply.