| Type: | Undergraduate Subject |
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| Code: | PSYC11-107 |
| EFTSL: | 0.125 |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Society and Design |
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| Credit: | 10 |
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Description
Environmental Psychology explores how humans perceive, experience, and interact with their physical surroundings. This course examines theories, empirical research, and real-world applications to understand how environmental factors shape behaviour, cognition, and well-being. Topics include urban design, sustainability, spatial cognition, restorative environments, and climate change psychology. Students will engage with classic and contemporary research, hands-on activities, and critical discussions.
Subject details
Learning outcomes
- Explain the key theories, concepts, and historical foundations of environmental psychology, including the dynamic relationship between people and their physical environments.
- Critically evaluate research methods used in environmental psychology, including observational, experimental, and field-based approaches, with attention to ecological validity and ethical considerations.
- Analyse how individuals perceive, interpret, and interact with environments, including spatial cognition, wayfinding, personal space, territoriality, privacy, and responses to environmental stressors.
- Apply environmental psychological theories to support well-being and restoration, particularly through the design of supportive, natural, and biophilic environments.
- Integrate psychological principles to address environmental sustainability, justice, and behaviour change, recognising the roles of cognitive biases, cultural values, identity, and community-based interventions.
Enrolment requirements
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Nil |
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| Assumed knowledge: |
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. All psychology programs are accredited in the sequence presented and designed to provide students with learning and graduate outcomes aligned with APAC accreditation standards. |
| Restrictions: |
Nil |
Subject outlines
Subject dates
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September 2025
Standard Offering Enrolment opens: 20/07/2025 Semester start: 15/09/2025 Subject start: 15/09/2025 Last enrolment: 28/09/2025 Teaching census: 10/10/2025 Withdraw - Financial: 11/10/2025 Withdraw - Academic: 01/11/2025
| Standard Offering | |
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| Enrolment opens: | 20/07/2025 |
| Semester start: | 15/09/2025 |
| Subject start: | 15/09/2025 |
| Last enrolment: | 28/09/2025 |
| Teaching census: | 10/10/2025 |
| Withdraw - Financial: | 11/10/2025 |
| Withdraw - Academic: | 01/11/2025 |