Handbook

PREREQUISITE: : Enrolment in the Master of Environment and Sustainability, Master of Environmental Management and Sustainability or Master of International Sustainable Tourism Management

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). You are expected to have a good understanding of the pre-work when joining the interactive sessions. 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. Successful recordings require the educator to use their microphone (so please remind them if they seem to have forgotten!). These recordings will be available via the ENS5010 Moodle page. You can find them in the weekly work or the resources page, or simply go to the banner at the top of the ENS5010 Moodle homepage to find these. Access is restricted to those students currently enrolled in this subject. Select the date of the session you want to listen to. 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. Where hard copy activity sheets are needed, these will be printed off by staff or provided electronically. There are no textbooks you are required to buy. Materials, such as readings, are provided online via the weekly pages, week by week.

Asessments and the Assignment Book
All assignment guidelines and marking rubrics, resources, and submission dropboxes can be found under the Assessments tab on the unit Moodle page. The assignment guidelines and rubrics, which are very 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. The assignment book contents, especially the background information and marking rubrics, will be very useful for guiding the development of your work. You can navigate between assignments and 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. Thus it is important to attend. You can download a PDF copy of the Assignment book using Moodle if this is easier for you to read through.

• First semester, Clayton, Teaching activities are on-campus (ON-CAMPUS)
• Second semester, Clayton, Teaching activities are on-campus (ON-CAMPUS)

Contact hours equivalent to minimum 4 hours per week.

Additional requirements of at least twenty hours of independent work.

ENS5010 Moodle page: You should regularly consult the ENS5010 Moodle page for news and materials that may be available. In each weekly or thematic tab, and under the Assessments tab, you will find a range of electronic resources to support your studies. This includes recordings should you need them. You should access all your unit web pages (including ENS5010) through your ‘Monash Portal’ http://my.monash.edu.au/.

Assignment Book: The Assignment Book is a particularly critical resource on the Moodle page. It comprises the guidelines and rubrics designed to guide the development of your assignments.

Research and Learning Online: This contains modules, which you can use as needed and when needed, to develop study skills for academic success. This includes example assignment structures for different disciplines and other useful materials to get your assignments done. Access the website via: https://www.monash.edu/rlo

Master of Environment and Sustainability Library Guide: This contains information on how to use the library and how to access its support services, as well as environmental databases, for all course specialisations. It provides many types of resources relevant to environment and sustainability. You can access the guide via the MEnvSust Home, the ENS5010 Moodle page, or via the link: http://guides.lib.monash.edu/environ-sustain​

Master of Environment and Sustainability Moodle Home: This is a central location for general course news, events, discussions, support services, Part D information, and resources: http://moodle.vle.monash.edu/course/view.php?id=33086​

Monash Library ENS5010 Unit Reading List: Readings are typically accessed through your weekly tab/sub-section on the ENS5010 Moodle page but you can also access some key unit readings via: http://readinglists.lib.monash/index.html

Textbooks: You are not required to purchase any textbooks for this unit. All resources, such as readings, are provided online as part of the weekly pre-work with new materials introduced week by week.