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ASIA 3007 - Asia Beyond Climate Change

Career: Undergraduate
Units: 3
Term: 4010
Campus: North Terrace
Contact: Up to 3 hours per week
Available for Study Abroad and Exchange: Yes
Available for Non-Award Study: Yes
Discovery Experience – Global: Yes
Pre-Requisite: At least 6 units of Level II undergraduate study
Incompatible: ASIA 2025
Assessment: Notebook, Reflection Paper, Research Proposal, Research Essay
Syllabus:

How can we adapt to climate change? Can Asia contribute to solve this existential crisis? Asia Beyond Climate Change explores these questions by focusing on China and Japan, the world's second and the third largest economies. Their experiences of modernisation have a lot to offer when reconsidering the meaning of development and questions of sustainability. Focus of this course is Japan. What does Japan's 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis signify, and what can we learn from this experience? How is it relevant to climate change? The course examines a wide range of relevant topics including energy, agriculture, construction, education, youth, ageing population, and urban-rural relationships using a sociological approach. In particular, we examine how people respond to socio-ecological issues at the grassroots (e.g. Minamata), and how the intangible cultural heritage has contributed to new theoretical and philosophical reconsiderations of human-nature relationships (critical/postmodern animism). The role of China will be crucial to the world and so is Australia's. We examine the relevance of Japan's experience for these countries. The course is useful for students doing Japanese Studies, Chinese Studies, International Relations, International Development, Media Studies, Environmental Policy and Management, International Business, Education and Law, as well as Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Social Sciences.

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Course Outline

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Critical Dates

Term Last Day to Add Online Census Date Last Day to WNF Last Day to WF
4010 Mon 16/03/2020 Thu 26/03/2020 Fri 12/06/2020 Not Available


Class Details

Enrolment Class: Lecture
Class Nbr Section Size Available Dates Days Time Location
12922 LE01 130 16 4 Mar - 8 Apr Wednesday 10am - 11am Horace Lamb, 1022, Horace Lamb Lecture Theatre
29 Apr - 3 Jun Wednesday 10am - 11am Horace Lamb, 1022, Horace Lamb Lecture Theatre
Related Class: Workshop
Class Nbr Section Size Available Dates Days Time Location
12924 WR01 42 FULL 4 Mar - 8 Apr Wednesday 2pm - 4pm Barr Smith South, 2052, Teaching Room
29 Apr - 10 Jun Wednesday 2pm - 4pm Barr Smith South, 2052, Teaching Room
18710 WR03 76 4 6 Mar - 10 Apr Friday 12pm - 2pm Barr Smith South, 2032, Teaching Room
1 May - 12 Jun Friday 12pm - 2pm Barr Smith South, 2032, Teaching Room