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SX1015: OCEANS AND SOCIETY (2015-2016)

Last modified: 25 Mar 2016 11:32


Course Overview

Investigating an array of real-world problems will allow you to explore past, present and future relationships between society and the oceans in the real-world scenario of an interdisciplinary team.

Field trips and lectures provide the framework for considering ocean ecology, seafaring and ocean governance, and will introduce you to different approaches to knowledge and demonstrate how different disciplines work.

Supervised workshops provide a diverse set of learning experiences with feedback from teaching staff and your peers.

Choice of the form of presentation of your project work gives you an opportunity to play to your strengths and develop transferrable skills.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 1
Term First Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus None. Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Professor Ursula Witte
  • Dr Philip Smith

Qualification Prerequisites

None.

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Undergraduate Programme (Studied)
  • Either Programme Level 1 or Programme Level 2

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

Students will be encouraged to reflect upon Oceans and Society through study of three themes: Ocean ecology (physical influences and their impact including consequences of climate change on the harvesting of marine resources, the occurrence of tsunami waves and consequences of changes in sea level); seafaring, contact and colonisation (including technological and societal requirements for as well as political, economic, cultural and legislative impacts of trade and colonisation) and governance (legal challenges of sustainable managment, marine spatial planning etc).

Further Information & Notes

This course is only available to students registered in Programme Years 1 and 2. Attendance at sixth century courses is compulsory. Students who do not attend all classes (including lectures) for a sixth century course, without exceptional cause, will not pass the engagement component of the course and will therefore fail the course.  If you are going to take part in University sports requiring travel on a Wednesday morning then you should not take this course.

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

More Information about Week Numbers


Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

1st Attempt: Continuous assessment (100%) via output from group work pertaining to each of the three themes.

Resit: Submission/resubmission of work not previously submitted or for which a fail mark has been awarded, respectively.

Formative Assessment

Students will participate in a range of formative exercises within each theme. These will include PRS-based activity and access to online quiz material within each theme.

Feedback

Participation in the formative exercises will be monitored and students with apparent difficulty will be identified and invited to discuss solutions with members of the teaching staff. Written feedback will be given on the summative exercises (report on observational study and reflective writing).

Course Learning Outcomes

None.
 

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