Module Code - Title:
GY4028
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ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
Understanding how and why environmental change occurs is essential to growing our awareness of the relationship between man and nature. This module aims to introduce the world's most pressing environmental issues through an examination of the nature, causes and impacts of major types of environmental change, and the economic, legal, cultural and ethical underpinnings of environmental responsibility.
Syllabus:
Environmental Change will introduce students to the most pressing large-scale global environmental problems including ecological principles and conservation management, environmental degradation, natural resource security, climate change and the role of human societies. The module will also touch on environmental law, policy, economy and governance and the links with human systems and environmental change.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
• Demonstrate a comprehension of the key concepts and processes involved in environmental issues;
• Demonstrate an understanding of the temporal and spatial nature of environmental issues;
• Demonstrate the ability to employ methods to evaluate, analyse and interpret a variety of qualitative and quantitative environment related data
• Identify, explain and construct critical arguments on the relationship between society and a variety of environmental issues.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
• demonstrate an appreciation of the different factors at play in environmental studies
• Illustrate and evaluate conflicting trends and disparity across different scales of environmental policy
• employ independent learning and team work
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
N/A
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
This module will be taught through a combination of lectures, practicals and self-directed learning.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Arnell, N.
(2016)
Hydrology and global environmental change.
, London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Hester, R.E., Harrison, R.M. and Houghton, J.T. (2002)
Global Environmental Change.
, Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry.
Matthews, J.A.
(2012)
The SAGE Handbook of Environmental Change.
, SAGE
Other Relevant Texts:
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
BAULARUFA - ARTS
BSPHEDUFA - PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Spring
Module Leader:
immanuel.darkwa@ul.ie