GG1001
Welcome to the Anthropocene: Society, Population, Environment
2023-2024
20
10
SCQF level 7
1
Academic year(s): 2023-2024
SCOTCAT credits : 20
ECTS credits : 10
Level : SCQF level 7
Semester: 1
Planned timetable:
As the global population speeds past 7 billion, mounting evidence about resource depletion and climate change, and global economic inequality and social injustice, suggests current human development is unsustainable and that we are now living in the Anthropocene - an era in which human activity has, for the first time, become the dominant driver of environmental processes, and is causing unprecedented global change. The module shows how Geography, a discipline that draws on knowledge that spans the social and natural sciences and the humanities, is uniquely placed to understand our changing world. Its combination of lectures and tutorials are relevant to students across the University.
Weekly contact: 3x 1-hour lectures (x 10 weeks) + 4x 1-hour tutorials + 4x 2-hour practical class and 1x half day optional field trip conditions permitting
Scheduled learning hours: 46
Guided independent study hours: 154
As used by St Andrews: 100% continual assessment
As defined by QAA
Written examinations : 0%
Practical examinations : 0%
Coursework: 100%
Re-assessment: 100% continual assessment
Module coordinator: Dr I T Lawson
Module teaching staff: Team taught
Module coordinator email itl2@st-andrews.ac.uk