Instructions
The Final takes the form of a more extended piece of writing or a creative project, in which you explore the work of one or two of the contributors to our textbook in more detail, demonstrating how it may contribute to contemporary issues of society and sustainability. You should submit
OR a creative project, such as a short film, a recorded lecture, a podcast, Powerpoint, or other presentation. If you are making a film, it should be of between 5 and 15 minutes’ duration; if a lecture or presentation, it should be between 10 and 20 minutes’ duration. If you wish to propose a creative project in some other format (e.g. a mock newspaper, an opera …), this should be pre-agreed with me via email or office hour consultation.
METHOD: First ask yourself which of the 38 extracts in the textbook you most enjoyed reading. Choose either one excerpt upon which you will expand or two excerpts that would make for a good comparative piece. Then establish, read and research the context from which the extract was taken, and find out more about the work of the author(s). Your research project will then take the form of a reading of their work and an application of it to a contemporary sustainability issue or indeed to the concept and scope of sustainability as we understand it today. Your project is to use their work to open up our thinking about sustainability in new ways.
Topic Selection: Did you find, as many sustainability scholars have, that one of the most powerful and important debates in the field is that provoked by Garrett Hardin’s ‘Tragedy of the Commons’ and Elinor Ostrom’s Noble Prize winning response to it? If so, do a research project that compares their work and its impact.