Level 1
- GC 1001 - GLOBAL WORLDS, GLOBAL CHALLENGES
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- Credit Points
- 20
- Course Coordinator
- Dr C Gibbins
Pre-requisites
None
Notes
Only available to students registered for the Global Challenges degree programme. Students wishing to take this course but registered for other programmes must take the equivalent Geography course, GG 1006. This course cannot be included as part of a graduating curriculum along with GG 1006.
Overview
Working with the theme of 'science, society and environment; this course examines major global issues from an interdisciplinary perspective. Related study blocks will address:
- How the plant works. The interdependence of natural and human systems: interaction of atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, lithosphere, world cultures, economic and political systems.
- Global environmental change. Atmosphere and oceans. The relationships between land cover and land use, population, and development. Political, economic and ethical consequences.
- Energy. The science, technology, politics and economics of fossil fuels and alternative energy sources.
- Resources, development and environmental degradation. Natural resources as the foundation of persperity and human well-being. Agricultural and industrial development, social and environmental justice.
- Globalisation, society and lifestyles. What are the impacts of global economic and technological change? What is sustainable development and is it achievable?
Structure
Two hours of lectures per week plus six two-hour, tutor-led workgroups. Students will produce a portfolio of coursework attached to these workgroups.
Assessment
1st Attempt: 1 two-hour examination (67%) and in-course assessment (33%).
Resit: Resit examination - 1 two-hour written examination (67%) PLUS original in-course assessment carried forward (33%).
- GC 1501 - GLOBAL WORLDS, LOCAL CHALLENGES
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- Credit Points
- 20
- Course Coordinator
- Dr A M D Gemmell
Pre-requisites
None - but GC 1001 recommended
Notes
Only available to students registered for the Global Challenges degree programme. Students wishing to take this course but registered for other programmes must take the equivalent Geography course, GG 1507. This course cannot be included as part of a graduating curriculum along with GG 1507.
Overview
Working with the theme of 'Scotland in Transition' this course examines how global processes produce and reflect local-scale changes. Related study blocks will address:
- Environmental change and landscape response. Topography, climate, reconstruction of past relationships between humans, plants and animals.
- Landscape and society.Environment - opportunity or risk? Resources and hazards as local manifestations of global drivers. People, land, water, soils - who controls what?
- Globalisation - the economics and politics of urban industrial change.Agents and scales of change: nations and states; local government; multinational corporations and local entrepreneurialism. Regional development and the post-industrial economy.
- New social and cultural spaces. Mobility and difference; poverty and exclusion; imaginative geographies: unequal power relationships; memories, places and nations.
Structure
Two hours of lectures per week plus six two-hour, tutor-led workgroups. Students will produce a portolio of coursework attached to these workgroups.
Assessment
1st Attempt: 1 two-hour examination (67%) and in-course assessment (33%).
Resit: Resit examination - 1 two-hour written examination (67%) PLUS original in-course assessment carried forward (33%).