Postgraduate Course: Ecology, Ethics and Spirit (THET11011)
Course Outline
School |
School of Divinity |
College |
College of Humanities and Social Science |
Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Available to all students |
Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits |
20 |
Home subject area |
Theology and Ethics |
Other subject area |
None |
Course website |
None |
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Course description |
To provide candidates with a multidisciplinary understanding of ecological ethics. Mobilising insights and perspectives from anthropology, ecology, ecological economics, philosophy and theology the emphasis will be upon the contrasting ways in which human cultural practices frame human-nature interactions in premodernity, modernity and postmodernity. |
Course Delivery Information
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Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 1, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
New College | Lecture | | 1-11 | | | | 11:10 - 13:00 | |
First Class |
Week 1, Thursday, 11:10 - 13:00, Zone: New College. Baillie Room |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course learners should be able to:
Recognise, restate and critique the dominant modes of moral discourse in relation to human-nature relationships;
Articulate and discuss how ecological and spiritual insights may inform human agency with respect to the environment;
Explain and appraise alternative accounts of the origins and possible resolution of the ecological crisis;
Critically evaluate the predominance of narrowly economic over other kinds of ways of assessing the impacts of human activity on the non-human world. |
Assessment Information
Students will be asked to submit a 3000 word essay. |
Please see Visiting Student Prospectus website for Visiting Student Assessment information |
Special Arrangements
Not entered |
Contacts
Course organiser |
Prof M Northcott
Tel: (0131 6)50 8947
Email: M.Northcott@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Ms Karoline Mclean
Tel: (0131 6)50 8952
Email: k.mclean@ed.ac.uk |
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