University of St Andrews

Key information

SCOTCAT credits : 20

ECTS credits : 10

Level : SCQF level 8

Semester: 1

Planned timetable: Lectures: 1-2pm Mon, Tues, Fri Further class hours to be confirmed

This module builds on the core material of SD1000 and SD1004 of SD Year 1. SD Year 2 explores sustainable development and human security (semester 1) and sustainability and nature (semester 2). This semester, incorporating the human security discourse into sustainable development, this module focuses on four themes representing overarching approaches for developing sustainability solutions, whose interests they represent and their implications on the “individual” as the referent object of security and sustainable development. Engaging the human security components allows us to understand the implications of sustainable development, or lack thereof, on the people whose development we seek to sustain. Through critical interrogation of approaches to the sustainable development of which the SDGs are currently at its core and human security, this module will explore the benefits and trade-offs implicit in different dimensions of sustainability and their implications.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisite(s): Before taking this module you must pass SD1000 and pass SD1004

Anti-requisite(s): You cannot take this module if you pass SD2001 or take SD2001

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact: 3 lectures (x 10 weeks); 1 tutorial (x 4 weeks); 1x 5hr field trip

Scheduled learning hours: 40

Guided independent study hours: 160

Assessment pattern

As used by St Andrews: 100% Coursework.


Re-assessment: 100% written examination

Personnel

Module coordinator: Dr I M Okafor-Yarwood
Module teaching staff: Dr Noleen Chikowore; Dr Fernando Benitez; Dr Antje Brown; and Dr Ife Okafor-Yarwood
Module coordinator email imoy1@st-andrews.ac.uk

Intended learning outcomes

• By the end of this module, the students should be able to: • Analyse new and emerging frameworks for interrogating Sustainable Development and Human Security.
• • Explain the interactions or lack thereof between sustainable development and human security.
• • Critically analyse the centrality of global governance to sustainable development and human security.
• • Understand the politics of and the practical application of sustainable development policies and differentiate them from theoretical ones.
• Through the lectures, seminars and assessments, you will develop skills relevant to further studies and future employment: • You will develop your ability to identify critical demands of tasks, manage your time effectively, work collaboratively in groups, and present your ideas effectively.
• • Develop competence in designing and presenting sustainable development and human security to academic and non-academic audiences alike.