Last modified: 31 Jul 2023 11:19
This course interrogates the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. These encompass contemporary global challenges such as responsible consumption and production, no poverty, clean water and climate action (challenges whose emergence is introduced in GG1010 Creating the Anthropocene). Drawing upon Human and Physical Geography perspectives, a ‘strong’ interpretation of sustainability, one where social and economic dimensions fundamentally rely on ecological foundations, underpins the course.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 1 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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This course interrogates, the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. Drawing upon perspectives from Human and Physical Geography, space, place, people and the environment, contemporary global challenges that have arisen during the Anthropocene (introduced in GG1010 Creating the Anthropocene) and which have prompted the development of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals are examined. The course structure is based on the three levels of the Stockholm Resilience Centre’s ‘wedding cake’ model of Sustainable Development (biosphere, society and economy), to present a ‘strong’ interpretation of sustainability, one where social and economic dimensions fundamentally rely on ecological foundations.
No prior knowledge is assumed.
Through a combination of lectures and small group teaching students will engage with the following thematic content:
The course will be assessed by completion of in-course assessments and a written examination.
| Description | Value |
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| Students will be expected to meet the cost of a day ticket to allow them to travel around the city by bus to undertake their fieldwork. | 5.0000 |
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 34 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 40 | Feedback Weeks | 43 | |
| Feedback |
Oral feedback available on request. |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 33 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 34 | Feedback Weeks | 35 | |
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Written feedback will be provided. |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 33 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 30 | Feedback Weeks | 33 | |
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Written feedback will be provided. |
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There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 34 | |
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Note - written exam resit will only be taken if the examination component of assessment was failed at the end of the first half session. |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 33 | |
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If the Group presentation is failed a resit individual presentation option will be available during summer resit period. Written feedback will be provided. |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 33 | |
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If the data response exercise is failed, a resit data practical exercise will be available during the summer resit period. Written feedback will be provided. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Evaluate | Understand the inter-relationships that exist between the contemporary natural world & social challenges, & consider the spatial dimensions to physical, environmental & social processes and phenomena. |
| Conceptual | Apply | Understand the importance of geographical perspectives on Sustainable Development and equip students with the necessary intellectual and practical skills to achieve this. |
| Factual | Remember | Upon completion of the course, be able to describe some of the interlinked ways in which Sustainable Development challenges manifest at a variety or spatial scales. |
| Conceptual | Apply | Upon completion of the course, be able to articulate possible solutions to Sustainable Development challenges, drawing upon different aspects of both Human and Physical Geography. |
| Conceptual | Understand | Introduce students to important geographical concepts and issues, covering sub-divisions within physical and human geography, and their links to principles and issues of global scale and significance. |
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