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• Explain the broad nature of selected sustainability challenges and the factors that underpin them
• Articulate the interplay between the dimensions of sustainability: environment, economy, society
• Evaluate the role of different disciplines in understanding and addressing sustainability challenges
• Work as part of an interdisciplinary team to develop solutions to sustainability challenges
The course will be built around independent working by teams of students with varied disciplinary interests to address the sustainability challenges specified in the course outline. There will be 24 one hour sessions in Active Learning Environments over the twelve weeks in the semester. In the first two weeks, the sessions will be primarily instructor-led, providing explanation of the module and approaches to be used and background to the key concepts and approaches to addressing sustainability challenges. Teams will be established and work plans developed. Each focal challenge will then be addressed in turn over a three week period. After guest lectures on each topic, sessions will be primarily built around team-based activity with advice and input from instructors from different disciplines. Groups will need to work towards a report on each challenge and a presentation on one of them and everyone will participate in class discussions and debates. In the final week, the group as a whole will review the activities and outcomes and reflect critically on approaches to identifying and addressing sustainability challenges.
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 6 |
Small Group | 18 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 90 |
Total | 114 |
GEOG 10150 Introduction to Sustainability provides essential background material for this module
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Attendance: Each student to be graded on engagement and contribution to group work. | Varies over the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 10 |
Group Project: A group report to be submitted for each of three focal sustainability challenges during the semester. | Varies over the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 75 |
Presentation: Group presentation to be made in relation to one of three sustainability challenges. | Varies over the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 15 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Autumn | No |
• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Peer review activities
Oral individual and group feedback in classes. Peer assessment of presentations. Written feedback on group reports and presentations.
Name | Role |
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Dr Serena Sgarzi | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 | Thurs 12:00 - 12:50 |
Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23 | Tues 11:00 - 11:50 |
Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 24 | Tues 11:00 - 11:50 |
Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 | Tues 11:00 - 11:50 |