Global Challenges 2: Human-environment Lifecyles GEOG5134

  • Academic Session: 2024-25
  • School: School of Geographical and Earth Sciences
  • Credits: 20
  • Level: Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
  • Typically Offered: Semester 2
  • Available to Visiting Students: Yes
  • Collaborative Online International Learning: No

Short Description

This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to lifecycles and just some of the global challenges associated with transitioning to greener, healthier and more just outcomes for communities and environments. Research-led teaching in geography and earth sciences drives the course. It is problem-led and uses interdisciplinary teaching teams to deliver case study examples of contemporary environmental and social issues. Students will benefit from learning across the human and environmental sciences, gaining technical knowledge of geophysical and environmental processes underpinned by critical philosophies and ethics to enact meaningful change for healthier, more sustainable Earth futures.  

Timetable

2 hour lecture and 1hour seminar per week over semester 2 (all teaching is synchronous)

Requirements of Entry

Normally entry to an Earth Futures MSc programme

Excluded Courses

GEOG5120

Co-requisites

None

Assessment

Environmental Impact Poster (50%) (ILOs 1& 2)

 

Group podcast (50%) (ILOs 3&4)

Course Aims

The aim of this course is to introduce students to critical geographical knowledges, approaches and techniques to address global social and environmental challenges in the Anthropocene. This includes a critical understanding of

■ how energy landscapes are managed, governed and exploited; 

■ the environmental, social and political impacts of resource extraction, distribution and circulation;

■ Social and physical science approaches to global health management

■ The relationship between environmental change and human/animal health

Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

By the end of this course students will be able to:

• Critically evaluate the impact of resource extraction, distribution and circulation

• Analyse scientific data on environmental impact

• Critically discuss the politics of global health and health equity

•Communicate complex problems and solutions for a public audience

Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.