Quaternary Environmental History (P00162)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : HCA-P-P00162

To provide an introduction to the Environmental History of the Quaternary. The course examines the evidence for environmental change over the last five million years - the long Quaternary - and the ways in which this evidence can be correlated to produce local, regional and global sequences. It examines the search for explanations of change in terms of both internal - and external - dynamic factors and explores the consequences of environmental change for individuals, populations and communities of plants and animals.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Postgraduate (School of History and Classics), (School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Schedule E)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Not being delivered

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and understanding of: - the geological context of the Quaternary and the evolution of the global environment from the later Tertiary to the later Quaternary - the detailed record of Quaternary environmental change in the British Isles within its regional, European and North Atlantic setting. - the dynamic interaction of Solar, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Terrestrial environmental systems and how such interaction may give rise to possible driving mechanisms for global, regional and local environmental change. - the consequences of Quaternary environmental change for terrestrial plant and animal populations (including the hominids) with particular emphasis on evolution, dispersal, migration, colonisation and the formation (and stability) of biotic communities. Supported by the acquisition of appropriate intellectual, professional, practical and transferable skills, including, for example: the ability to express the outcome of learning exercises in coherent and accurate written, numeric, graphical or illustrative form to pre-determined specifications.