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GG1010: CREATING THE ANTHROPOCENE (2023-2024)

Last modified: 23 Jul 2024 10:43


Course Overview

This course reflects upon the role humans have played in creating the Anthropocene (the epoch we are now living in), a time period during which human actions have become more significant than natural processes in shaping our world. Drawing primarily upon perspectives from physical and human geography, the nature of the changes, “how did we get here?”, are considered, laying the foundations for GG1512, in which “what comes after?” – how contemporary society is attempting to tackle Anthropocene challenges – is debated.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 1
Term First Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Timothy M. Mighall

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

This course will reflect on how humans created the Anthropocene, the epoch we are now living in, a period during which human actions and activities have become as, if not more, significant than natural processes in shaping the current and future world. It will interrogate “how did we get to where we are?”. This sets up an opportunity for students who take GG1512 to explore the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which seek to address “what comes after?”. No prior knowledge is assumed.


Contact Teaching Time

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

Teaching Breakdown

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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

Report: Individual

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 66
Assessment Weeks 12 Feedback Weeks 15

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2 x Individual Report (33% each)

Data analysis exercise, developing material introduced in the first computer lab practical class.

Written feedback will be provided.

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualAnalyseAppreciate the inter-relationships between components of the worlds natural and cultural systems that produced the Anthropocene and explain the processes behind them.
ConceptualUnderstandIntroduce students to contemporary geographical issues surrounding the Anthropocene (both Physical and Human geographical perspectives) of global, regional and local scale and significance.
FactualUnderstandUpon completion of the course, be able to describe some of the interlinked ways in which the Anthropocene challenges are manifest at a variety of temporal and spatial scales.

Exam

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 34
Assessment Weeks 20 Feedback Weeks 25

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Feedback

Oral feedback will be provided on request.

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualAnalyseAppreciate the inter-relationships between components of the worlds natural and cultural systems that produced the Anthropocene and explain the processes behind them.
ConceptualUnderstandIntroduce students to contemporary geographical issues surrounding the Anthropocene (both Physical and Human geographical perspectives) of global, regional and local scale and significance.
FactualUnderstandUpon completion of the course, be able to describe some of the interlinked ways in which the Anthropocene challenges are manifest at a variety of temporal and spatial scales.

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Resit Assessments

Resubmission of failed element(s)

Assessment Type Summative Weighting
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Resit is to take place during the summer resit period. Written feedback will be provided.

If the oral group presentation is failed, a resit individual presentation option will be available.

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualEvaluateDemonstrate the importance of approaching these issues from an interdisciplinary, yet spatio-temporal perspective.
ConceptualUnderstandIntroduce students to contemporary geographical issues surrounding the Anthropocene (both Physical and Human geographical perspectives) of global, regional and local scale and significance.
FactualUnderstandUpon completion of the course, be able to describe some of the interlinked ways in which the Anthropocene challenges are manifest at a variety of temporal and spatial scales.
FactualEvaluate(i) be able to synthesise complex concepts to explain why the Anthropocene arose and (ii) use a range of techniques to identify, analyse and communicate Anthropocene-related challenges.
ConceptualAnalyseAppreciate the inter-relationships between components of the worlds natural and cultural systems that produced the Anthropocene and explain the processes behind them.

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