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Postgraduate Course: Ecology, Ethics and Spirit (THET11011)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Divinity CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeStandard AvailabilityAvailable to all students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) Credits20
Home subject areaTheology and Ethics Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionTo 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.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Students MUST NOT also be taking Ecology, Ethics and Religion (THET10021)
Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesThis is a graduate-level course. Please confirm subject prerequisites with the Course Manager.
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus?Yes
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
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
2000 word essay mid-semester (40%)
3000 word essay (60%)
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
Academic description Not entered
Syllabus Not entered
Transferable skills Not entered
Reading list Not entered
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Not entered
KeywordsEcolESpirit
Contacts
Course organiserProf Michael Northcott
Tel: (0131 6)50 8947
Email: M.Northcott@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Joanne Hendry
Tel: (0131 6)50 7227
Email: J.Hendry@ed.ac.uk
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