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Postgraduate Course: Values and the Environment (P) (PGGE11114)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Geosciences CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course examines issues related to modes of human understanding and valuing of 'natural' and built environments. The course is constructed around a range of environments (from wilderness to the city) and a range of concepts and approaches that help us to understand humanity's relationship to and embeddedness in the natural world (including wilderness, nature, the more-that-human, landscape and place). The course is taught through alternating interactive seminars and seminars focused on shared readings.
Course description Week 1. Valued Environments - An Introduction
Week 2. Valuing Wilderness/The Wild
Week 3. Reading Seminar - Reading One
Week 4. Valuing the Ocean/Seas
Week 5. Reading Seminar - Reading Two
Week 6. Valuing Time
Week 7. Reading Seminar - Reading Three
Week 8. Valuing the Local
Week 9. Reading Seminar - Reading Four
Week 10. Valuing the Urban
Week 11. Reading Seminar - Reading Five
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2020/21, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  46
Course Start Semester 1
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 22, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Placement Study Abroad Hours 11, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 163 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Course essay (3000 words) 60% (Deadline: 18 Dec, 12 noon)

Book reviews submitted to course discussion board (4x500 words) 40% (Deadlines: 5 Oct, 19 Oct, 5 Nov, 16 Nov, 30 Nov)

Annotated bibliography 0% (formative assessment only). (Deadline 12 Nov, 12 noon)


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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. A detailed, critical understanding of ways in which environments are valued and key theoretical/philosophical ways of approaching human/environmental interactions.
  2. An understanding of how a range of environments, from the wild to the urban are valued (or devalued).
  3. An understanding of the role of values in engagement with a range of environments and the conflicts that arise around different forms of value.
  4. Expression of the student¿s own critical thinking on environmental values in discussion and in writing, a thinking which will be informed by recent, relevant developments.
  5. The group discussions will give students the opportunity to demonstrate some originality and creativity in dealing with environmental issues and allow them to practise critically identifying and analysing complex problems.
Reading List
Armstrong, Susan.J. and Botzler, R. eds. (2004) Environmental Ethics: Divergence and Convergence. McGraw-Hill.

Brady, Emily (2003) Aesthetics of the Natural Environment. Edinburgh University Press.

DesJardins, Joseph (2006) Environmental Ethics. 4th ed. Wadsworth.

Gardiner, Stephen et al., ed. (2010) Climate Ethics: Essential Readings. Oxford University Press.

Gardiner, Stephen M. and Thompson, Allen, eds. (2016) The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics. Oxford. Online access.

Gudorf, Christine and Huchingson, James (2010) Boundaries : a casebook in environmental ethics. Georgetown University Press. Online access.

Hourdequin, Marion (2015) Environmental Ethics: From Theory to Practice. Bloomsbury Academic.

Jamieson, Dale (2003) A Companion to Environmental Philosophy. Blackwell. Online access.

James, Simon (2015) Environmental Philosophy: An Introduction. Polity.

Keller, David. ed. (2010) Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions. Wiley.

Leopold, Aldo ([1949] 2000) The Land Ethic/Sand County Almanac.
Oxford University Press.

O'Neill John, Light Andrew, and Holland Alan (2008) Environmental Values. Routledge.

Rolston, H. (2012) A new environmental ethics the next millennium for life on Earth. Routledge. Online access.
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsPGGE1114,environmental ethics,environmental aesthetics,values,conservation,philosophy
Contacts
Course organiserProf Timothy Cresswell
Tel: (0131 6)50 9137
Email: tim.cresswell@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Louisa King
Tel: (0131 6)50 2543
Email: Louisa.King@ed.ac.uk
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