2022/23 Undergraduate Module Catalogue
SOEE2372 People, Sustainability, and the Environment
30 creditsClass Size: 100
Module manager: Rachael Carrie
Email: r.h.carrie@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2022/23
Pre-requisites
SOEE1111 | Sustainable Development |
This module is not approved as a discovery module
Module summary
This module provides an understanding of the relationships between human needs and the environment, focusing in particular on the energy, food and climate change sectors. It explores different perspectives on the goals of improving human wellbeing and environmental conservation, particularly the extent to which these might be complementary, compatible or contradictory goals, and how this intersects with broader social phenomena such as globalisation, gender and property rights. The module considers how different disciplines and approaches from across the social and natural science view the relationships between people, sustainability and the environment. The first semester of this module considers the relationship between social and environmental objectives, whilst the second considers different disciplinary perspective on it.Objectives
By the end of the module you should be able to:- analyse the complex interrelationships between human wellbeing, poverty and the natural environment, including cause/effect relationships across scales from the local to the global and placing the issues within the wider debates surrounding sustainability.
-understand, appreciate and critically analyse the different approaches brought by different disciplines and perspectives from across social and natural sciences to the issue of human needs and the environment
Skills outcomes
The module places considerable emphasis on:
- recognising and using subject-specific theories, paradigms, concepts and principles;
- analysing, synthesising and summarising information critically, including prior research;
- applying knowledge and understanding to address familiar and unfamiliar problems;
- recognising the moral and ethical issues of investigations and appreciating the need for professional codes of conduct;
The module places moderate emphasis on:
- referencing work in an appropriate manner;
- communicating appropriately to a variety of audiences in written, verbal and graphical form.
The module places some emphasis on:
- collecting and integrating several lines of evidence to formulate and test hypotheses;
- receiving and responding to a variety of information sources (eg textual numerical, verbal, graphical).
Syllabus
- Definitions of ‘poverty’, ‘climate change’, ‘food security’, ‘energy security’, ‘governance’ and ‘power’ and examination of the assumptions underlying them; -Approaches to understanding environment and poverty relations, such as political ecology, political economy, livelihoods frameworks, ecosystem services, valuing natural resources, biodiversity conservation, participatory methods and approaches.
Teaching methods
Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
Computer Class | 1 | 1.50 | 1.50 |
Lecture | 9 | 2.00 | 18.00 |
Seminar | 9 | 2.00 | 18.00 |
Private study hours | 262.50 | ||
Total Contact hours | 37.50 | ||
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 300.00 |
Private study
Background reading: 128.5Preparation for exam: 58
Preparation for research paper: 76
Opportunities for Formative Feedback
Formative feedback will be provided in workshops and seminars.Methods of assessment
Coursework
Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
Assignment | 2,500 word | 50.00 |
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 50.00 |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
Exams
Exam type | Exam duration | % of formal assessment |
Open Book exam | 48 hr 00 mins | 50.00 |
Total percentage (Assessment Exams) | 50.00 |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
Reading list
The reading list is available from the Library websiteLast updated: 14/07/2022 12:21:50
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