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 Academic Year: | 2016/7 |
| Owning Department/School: | Programmes in Natural Sciences |
| Credits: | 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 120 |
| Level: | Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
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| Assessment Summary: | CW 40%, OR 40%, OT 20% |
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| Requisites: |
While taking this module you are advised totake CE40129
Before taking this module you are advised to ( take XX20001 AND take XX30191 ) OR ( take XX20085 AND take XX10212 ) , or have taken A-level Chemistry or equivalent. |
| Description:
| Aims: To enable advanced study of the impact of human populations on the global environment, focusing specially on human population growth and its impact on food supply, human use of common resources, ecological services and biodiversity. Learning Outcomes: After taking this unit students should be able to demonstrate that they: * Have advanced knowledge of a range of scientific and technical problems concerning the current state of the global environment, and the evidential basis for such knowledge; * Understand historic and current impacts on the global environment of human population growth and technological advance; * Can access and analyse web-based governmental and NGO public databases of global environmental information; * Appreciate the importance of detailed accounting of environmental indices in appraising global situation; * Can evaluate the worth of predictive models of future environmental change, and their implications for Homo sapiens and the biosphere; * Are aware of historic and current proposals to limit human population and economic growth and their scientific, technological, philosophical and political implications. Skills: Written communication (T/F/A), Oral presentation (T/F/A), Numeracy and computation (T/F/A), Data acquisition, handling and analysis (T/F/A), Information technology (T/F/A), Information handling and retrieval (T/F/A), Group working (T/F), Working independently (T/F). Content: Students will present group seminars based around research into chosen topics including energy, environment and climate change natural hazards, resources and sustainability- biogeochemical cycles and human impacts, population, urbanisation and economic growth. They will present a group talk, and provide relevant demonstration samples. Students will also be required to participate fully in discussion, and to write two short reports on other groups' topics. |
| Programme availability: |
XX30172 is Optional on the following programmes:Department of Chemistry
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