Type: | Undergraduate Subject |
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Code: | GLBE11-100 |
EFTSL: | 0.125 |
Faculty: | Faculty of Society and Design |
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Credit: | 10 |
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Description
Understanding how the planet works has never been more crucial in tertiary education. A practical understanding of this and its impact on humanity is vital. This knowledge is essential across all career structures to combat climate change. Understanding climate change is now as important as understanding the economy, the legal system, and our national and international societies, as it will affect all these areas in the future.
This subject introduces you to climate change through Earth and Global Systems, climate mechanisms, ocean and atmospheric interactions, and future world changes. The complexity of climate change is explained within the realm of general undergraduate knowledge. We will discuss current and future outcomes of climate change, its impacts on biodiversity, oceans and human activity, and we will study best practice climate adaptation and mitigation efforts of communities, cities and governments. Major climate adaptation issues include drought, desertification, rising heat, natural disasters, and the loss of habitats and agricultural areas. Increasing sea levels and severe weather events will impact human habitation, cause forced migration, affect food production, and lead to the loss of animals, fish, and their habitats.
These issues will challenge the world’s economic systems, political boundaries, global communities, international law, geopolitical boundaries, and our philosophy towards others and the natural world. Forced population movements and migrations caused by sea level rise, as well as changes in disease patterns, will compound these problems, particularly with a growing world population. This subject will equip you with the ability to filter out misinformation about the causes and consequences of climate change and help you face the future with a greater understanding of how to tackle a changing world.
Subject details
Learning outcomes
- Evaluate the fundamental concepts of Earth and Global Systems, climate mechanisms, and ocean and atmospheric interactions.
- Analyse the current and future outcomes of climate change, including its processes, human activity, and impacts on biodiversity, oceans, and biological extinction.
- Examine major climate issues such as drought, desertification, sea level rise, rising heat, natural disasters, and the loss of habitats and agricultural areas.
- Evaluate climate adaptation and mitigation efforts in the context of increasing climate impacts on human habitation, forced migration, food production, and the loss of animal and fish habitats.
- Develop the ability to filter out misinformation about the causes and consequences of climate change and apply this knowledge to tackle global challenges.
Enrolment requirements
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Assumed knowledge is the minimum level of knowledge of a subject area that students are assumed to have acquired through previous study. It is the responsibility of students to ensure they meet the assumed knowledge expectations of the subject. Students who do not possess this prior knowledge are strongly recommended against enrolling and do so at their own risk. No concessions will be made for students’ lack of prior knowledge.
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Subject outlines
- January 2025 [Standard - Climate Change and the Future World ]
- September 2024 [Standard - Climate Change and the Future World ]
- January 2024 [Standard - Climate Change and the Future World ]
- September 2023 [Standard - Climate Change and the Future World ]
- January 2023 [Standard - Climate Change and the Future World ]
- September 2022 [Standard - Climate Change and the Future World ]
- January 2022 [Standard - Climate Change and the Future World ]
- September 2021 [Standard - Climate Change and the Future World ]
- January 2021 [Standard - Climate Change and the Future World ]
- September 2020 [Standard - Climate Change and the Future World ]
- January 2020 [Standard - Climate Change and the Future World ]
Subject dates
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September 2024
Standard Offering Enrolment opens: 14/07/2024 Semester start: 09/09/2024 Subject start: 09/09/2024 Last enrolment: 22/09/2024 Teaching census: 04/10/2024 Withdraw - Financial: 05/10/2024 Withdraw - Academic: 26/10/2024 -
January 2025
Standard Offering Enrolment opens: 10/11/2024 Semester start: 20/01/2025 Subject start: 20/01/2025 Last enrolment: 02/02/2025 Teaching census: 14/02/2025 Withdraw - Financial: 15/02/2025 Withdraw - Academic: 08/03/2025
Standard Offering | |
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Enrolment opens: | 14/07/2024 |
Semester start: | 09/09/2024 |
Subject start: | 09/09/2024 |
Last enrolment: | 22/09/2024 |
Teaching census: | 04/10/2024 |
Withdraw - Financial: | 05/10/2024 |
Withdraw - Academic: | 26/10/2024 |
Standard Offering | |
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Enrolment opens: | 10/11/2024 |
Semester start: | 20/01/2025 |
Subject start: | 20/01/2025 |
Last enrolment: | 02/02/2025 |
Teaching census: | 14/02/2025 |
Withdraw - Financial: | 15/02/2025 |
Withdraw - Academic: | 08/03/2025 |