School Of Science And HealthScience in SocietyWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 300664.2
Discipline: OTHER AGRICULTURE, ENVIRONMENTAL AND RELATED STUDIES
Student Contribution Band: 2
Level: 2
Credit Points: 10
Assumed Knowledge
Sound knowledge of the issues affecting primary industries, community health or the environment. Ability to write technical reports and experience in problem based learning approaches. Literacy skills associated with data retrieval and literature searching. Basic knowledge of group dynamics.
Equivalent Units
300283 - Community Environmental Health Action, 700096 - Integrated Science (UWSC)
About this Unit
This unit is replaced by 300931 - Integrated Science 1 from 2013. This unit examines the complex interaction between power, politics, ethics and scientific paradigms in the management of natural agricultural and built environments. As such its foundations are in the field of environmental studies with a particular focus on the role of science graduates in the social interactions that govern societies use, transformation and impact on these environments. The rationale for the inclusion of a sociological perspective in a science degree is that scientists do not operate in a social vacuum, but are constantly subject to broader social, economic, political, ethical and cultural influences that bear upon the distribution and exercise of power and knowledge in organisations and in society as a whole.