ENV221H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Basarab Nicolescu, Environmental Health
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First tutorial starts the week of sept. 28th, and you must attend the 4 tutorials (they will have reading assignments) Assignments: written assignment 30% of final grade. Climate change, 1800 words, 4-6 pages, due nov. 11th: midterms 20% of final grade. 15 multiple choice and some short answers (about a paragraph long: final exam 40% of final grade. 2 hr exam: tutorial participation 10% of final grade. Multidisciplinary multiple disciplines, but no cooperation between them. Cross-disciplinary rigid polarization toward specific monodisciplinary concepts. Transdisciplinary multi-level coordination of entire education/innovation system. *environment is an interdisciplinary pursuit cooperation of multiple disciplines solutions come from multiple perspectives/disciplines. Existence of different levels of reality governed by different types of logic is inherent in the transdisciplinary attitude. Complements disciplinary approaches they do not strive for the master of several disciplines, but aims to open all disciplines of which they share and to that which lies beyond them. No single culture is privileged over any other culture.
