Postgraduate Course: Ecosystem Health and Sustainability (BIME11032)
Course Outline
| School | Deanery of Biomedical Sciences |
College | College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course will use a thematic approach to understanding the major issues in ecosystem health and sustainability, presenting relevant examples to illustrate the major problems and how solutions to these can be achieved. |
| Course description |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 20,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20,
Online Activities 50,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
106 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Formal summative written assessment will constitute 60% of the student's grade. Online assessment will incorporate a variety of activities will constitute 40% of their overall course grade and is taken to represent a formative assessment of learning throughout the programme. |
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Understand the complex relationships between human and wildlife populations and the ecosystems in which they live; Understand the link between ecosystem health and human well-being; Give examples of services provided by ecosystems, and their importance to human well-being.
- Discuss the current threats to ecosystem health worldwide, and understand the complex mix of drivers creating these; Identify those ecosystems most at risk of degradation; Predict the impact(s) on human and wildlife populations of continued ecosystem degradation.
- Define the term sustainability in relation to ecosystem services; Give examples of non-sustainable practices and predict what their long-term impact may be.
- Understand the features of good practice in the sustainable use of resources.
- Assess the relative merits and likely success of new technologies being developed to improve sustainability; Assess the sustainability of their current lifestyle and give examples of how this could be improved.
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Sharron Ogle
Tel:
Email: sogle@staffmail.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Lauren Sandford
Tel: (0131 6)51 5470
Email: Lauren.Sandford@ed.ac.uk |
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