ENS5010 Global challenges and sustainability

This unit is taught primarily via online pre-work alongside face to face (or interactive online) workshop sessions that feature both discursive, interactive seminar-style learning, to deepen your conceptual knowledge, and practical exercises for the development of professional, critical thinking, and research skills. This provides a mixture of theory and practical investigative experience, which are essential elements of the scientific method as well as active learning.

The online pre-work prepares you for participating in the weekly session. In the live session, you will contextualise and extend your understanding with the guidance of an expert. The session focuses on practice, application of scientific and professional methods, and the development of evidence-based and transferable skills for your career. The unit features the following teaching approaches:

Online pre-learning
Interactive seminar-style discussions
Workshops
Active learning
Case-based teaching and simulations
Enquiry-based learning
Peer assisted learning
Problem-based learning
Research activities

Moodle
All pre-work is available on the relevant week of the Moodle page. You should regularly consult the ENS5010 Moodle page for information including weekly pre-work and session materials that may be made available by teaching staff. It is highly recommended that you check the Moodle page at least twice per week.

Online pre-work
To gain maximum benefit from the interactive session, you should complete the online pre-class work every week before the session. You understanding of this work will be assessed via weekly online mini-quizzes (Weeks 2-10).  This online work may include readings, videos, and/or podcasts, which mini-quizzes will cover.

Interactive workshop sessions
The sessions are highly interactive and involve teamwork activities, simulations, and case-based analysis and discussion. Thus your attendance (in person or online) is strongly encouraged to develop a good understanding of the concepts in this unit. If you miss a session, or want to listen to and watch it again for revision purposes, all classes will be recorded. You can elect to start listening immediately or save the file for later listening.

Workshop session materials
There is no hard copy session manual for this unit so that we can all be kind to the environment. Instead you can access the session materials via the relevant week on the Moodle page.  There are no textbooks you are required to buy. Materials, such as readings and podcasts, are provided online via the weekly pages, week by week.

Assessments and the assignment book
All assignment guidelines and marking rubrics, resources, and submission drop boxes can be found under the Assessments tab on the unit Moodle page. The assignment guidelines and rubrics, which are important to read through, are contained in the Assignment book. Please ensure that you carefully read the relevant chapter/s and sub-chapters of the Assignment book before undertaking each assignment. This will be useful for guiding the development of your work. You can navigate between chapters in the Assignment Book by utilising the panel to the right side of your view. As you will see in the Assignment Book, many workshop sessions are designed to provide you with the background, techniques, tools or skills to support the development of your future assignments.