The Environmental Politics course is designed to provide undergraduate students with a comprehensive understanding of some of the key theories, perspectives, debates, concepts and core issues in environmental politics.

By the end of the course, students are expected to have achieved the following:

• Demonstrate familiarity with the core issues, traditions and debates within environmental politics
  

• Critically reflect on those theories and issues, and engage in debates and discussions in class
• Acquire skills such as self-reflection, openness and sensitivity to diversity, and understanding of complexity
  

• Apply some of the theoretical approaches and deepen a particular research field by developing a short research paper

There will be in total 8 sessions. The sessions will involve student participation, group work, debates and individual presentations. In the introductory class readings for individual presentations will be allocated.

80% attendance of sessions is required to pass the course (this means that maximum one class can be missed). This allowance is for serious and unforeseen events only. If you will miss a class,please have the courtesy to inform the lecturer in advance.

 The overall grade for this course consists of the following four parts:

• Final essay: 40% (deadline 23 January 2017)
• In class participation: 15%
• Weekly assignments based on readings : 20%
• Individual presentations: 25%