GI5071 - Sustainability and Environmental Justice (2024/25)
| Module specification | Module approved to run in 2024/25 | |||||||||||||||
| Module title | Sustainability and Environmental Justice | |||||||||||||||
| Module level | Intermediate (05) | |||||||||||||||
| Credit rating for module | 15 | |||||||||||||||
| School | School of Social Sciences and Professions | |||||||||||||||
| Total study hours | 150 | |||||||||||||||
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| Running in 2024/25(Please note that module timeslots are subject to change) |
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Module summary
In this module you will have a broad introduction to sustainability, while:
1. Investigating environmental threats including the climate crisis, pollution, and the global biodiversity crisis;
2. Exploring political, social, technological and economic solutions to these problems;
3. Considering systemic environmental inequality along the lines of social class, race/ethnicity, gender and Intergenerationally.
Prior learning requirements
No pre-requisites.
Module is available for Study Abroad students.
Syllabus
Content may change but an indicative syllabus will include studying a selection from the following:
• UK environmental pressures;
• Global environmental pressures;
• Climate and carbon literacy;
• Inequality, human rights, and intergenerational justice;
• Poverty and pollution;
• Health, diet and sustainability;
• Climate change solutions;
• Renewable energy technologies; and
• Employability in the sector.
Balance of independent study and scheduled teaching activity
The module is delivered through a series of three-hour participatory group seminars involving individual, pair and group work and will involve active learning, producing, presenting and discussing oral and written work. Group discussions, tutorials and formative feedback will give students the opportunity to reflect upon progress and discuss strategies for developing skills and ideas.
Students are encouraged to develop independent reading around the topics covered. They will engage i ongoing guided and self-directed study to enable them to complete required assessment components.
Module information including module booklet, timetable, class notes, practice activities, feedback, links to external resources, assessment details and additional resources to support study will be on the VLE.
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will be better equipped to:
1. Understand the main environmental problems facing us today.
2. Describe and critically evaluate the political, social, technological and economic solutions offered to solve these problems.
3. Recognise and analyse the unequal global exploitation of environmental resources and distribution of environmental harm, and critically evaluate policy responses to this.