The Changing Environment (Aut)
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| GEOG2006 | Geography | 2 | 10 | Autumn UK |
- Code
- GEOG2006
- School
- Geography
- Level
- 2
- Credits
- 10
- Semesters
- Autumn UK
Summary
This module considers the mechanisms for and evidence of, global environmental change. Divided into five main themes, the module focuses on current research into:
1. Impacts and prediction of future change;
2. Instrumental and historical records of environmental change;
3. Biological, chemical, sedimentary and morphological evidence of change;
4. Areas of concern in human – environment interactions;
5. Ocean-atmosphere-terrestrial connectivity and feedback.
Target Students
Available to BSc Geography (F800), BA Geography (L700) and BA Geography with Business (L7N1) students, only if they are taking a semester abroad. Available to Year 2 outside students including Natural Sciences students on Geography pathways (FGC0 and GFC0) and Environmental Sciences (2+2) students (F759). Please note that this module cannot be taken with GEOG2074 (20 cr FY version). Available to Exchange students.
Classes
Weekly teaching will take place through a mixture of lectures and practical sessions.
Assessment
- 100% Exam (2-hour): Online exam
Assessed by end of autumn semester
Educational Aims
This module aims to provide: an understanding of the mechanisms driving global change at a range of different timescales, a knowledge of the existence and limitations of evidence for change, an appreciation of sources of information on this topic and how to integrate this knowledge into cogent written and oral arguments related to Quaternary environmental change; an ability to evaluate the nature of change from literature-based evidence; and a foundation of skills and knowledge for further study of Quaternary environments and proxy records of change.Learning Outcomes
a. Knowledge and understanding:
Proxy indicators of environmental change
Role of connectivity and feedback mechanisms in driving change;
The importance of multi-proxy field and laboratory-based interpretation in environmental reconstruction.
b. Intellectual Skills:
Ability to evaluate contested theories of environmental change;
Appreciation and synthesis of sources of information;
Development of reasoned arguments related to the study of Quaternary environments.
c. Professional Practical Skills:
Evaluation of instrumental records and archive evidence in reconstructing past and present environments.
d. Transferable Skills:
Data Synthesis;
Critical Analysis.