Local Lives for a Sustainable Planet
UndergraduateTAS-KGA1072024
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Local Lives for a Sustainable Planet
About this subject
Upon successful completion of this subject, you will be able to:
- Apply the UN Sustainable Development Goals in personal and community contexts.
- Use interdisciplinary concepts and principles to inform problem solving and decision making for sustainability.
- Undertake actions to resolve global sustainability challenges at the personal and community level.
- Module 1: Context for Change
- Introducing the challenge
- Whole systems thinking
- Module 2: Making Change
- Innovative Practice
- Communities of Practice
- Framework for Change
- Module 3: Enabling Change
- Project Methods
- Liberating Structures
- Reflective Cycle
- Module 4: Seeing Change
- Supply and Value Chains
- Governance, Accreditation and Practice
This subject involves both critical reflection on the UN Sustainable Development Goals and critical reflection on lives lived in the context of the UN Sustainable Development
Goals. You will learn and apply techniques to identify, plan, implement and evaluate the impact of actions for positive change. This capstone subject will give you the opportunity to bring together your learnings and apply sustainability knowledge and literacy to aspects of your own life, and to identify how it can contribute to sustainable outcomes within your wider community and globally.
As a capstone to the Diploma of Sustainable Living, the subject integrates theory and practice of sustainable living within a systems thinking environment. You study social
change as a dynamic, critical thinking process and examine techniques for progressing sustainable living through contemporary, reflective facilitation methods.
Interactive online activities will enable you to explore different approaches to systems thinking, where the interrelatedness and multidisciplinary nature of sustainability challenges and opportunities can be tackled.
Our aim in teaching KGA107 is to demonstrate how the study of sustainability within the Geography and Spatial Sciences discipline can enhance your lived experience, and enable you to support your communities and organisations to participate in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
The subject will allow students to demonstrate how they can contribute to the creation of a fairer and more sustainable world. Students wishing to enrol in further studies
might consider the Major in Sustainability.
We teach in the belief that rigour and passion are a powerful combination in knowing the world so as to change it for the better.
We hope you find studying Local Lives for a Sustainable Planet relevant, interesting, challenging and exciting!
Students engage in 6 x 1.5 hour Online Interactive Forums and lecture content, online discussions and assessment tasks. Assessment is 100% internal (i.e., no examination) and enables you to actively engage with ideas and issues, reflect on your learning and learn collaboratively.
- Knowledge Tree Synthesis (20%)
- Intervention for Change (40%)
- Practise Manual (40%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- TAS-SUS-DEG-2024 - Bachelor of Science (Sustainability)
Elective
- TAS-PSC-DEG-2024 - Bachelor of Psychological Science and Bachelor of Science
- TAS-BBS-DEG-2024 - Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of Science
Prior study
You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or currently be enrolled in the following subject(s) in a prior study period; or enrol in the following subject(s) to study prior to this subject:
Please note that your enrolment in this subject is conditional on successful completion of these prerequisite subject(s). If you study the prerequisite subject(s) in the study period immediately prior to studying this subject, your result for the prerequisite subject(s) will not be finalised prior to the close of enrolment. In this situation, should you not complete your prerequisite subject(s) successfully you should not continue with your enrolment in this subject. If you are currently enrolled in the prerequisite subject(s) and believe you may not complete these all successfully, it is your responsibility to reschedule your study of this subject to give you time to re-attempt the prerequisite subject(s).
Others
Conditional requisites: TAS-HEJ111 plus 37.5 credit points of study in Diploma of Sustainable Living (TAS-SUS-DIP) or Undergraduate Certificate in Sustainable Living (TAS-SUS-CTF).
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
Find out more information on Commonwealth Loans to understand what this means to your eligibility for financial support.
Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Bachelor of Science (Sustainability)
UndergraduateTAS-SUS-DEG
Bachelor of Psychological Science and Bachelor of Science
UndergraduateTAS-PSC-DEG
Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of Science
UndergraduateTAS-BBS-DEG