Liberal Arts
Hope and Fear: History, Culture, and Climate Change
Module code: Q9111
Level 4
30 credits in spring semester
Teaching method: Seminar, Workshop
Assessment modes: Report
This module gives you an inter-disciplinary perspective on the relationship between people and their environments, drawing together tutors from across the arts, humanities, and geographical and social sciences.
Environment, climate and ecology will function as both metaphorical and literal terms. Culture has its own ‘ecology,’ for example.
You will consider how relationships with ‘environment’ affect the wellbeing of both people and the environment.
You will study the environment as represented in:
- literature
- cinema
- acoustic ecology
- car culture
- many other forms.
You’ll question where our cultural and built environment ends, where something else begins and how we inhabit both.
Module learning outcomes
- Exhibit knowledge and understanding of multiple fields; make interdisciplinary connections.
- Apply culture-specific knowledge to think critically, comparatively and creatively about global, national and local issues.
- Communicate effectively with others; employ a variety of practices to understand and articulate the significance of particular arguments, positions, perspectives, and/or information.
- Understand norms and conventions (institutional, social, systemic, market) and the value of questioning or disrupting them.
- Produce and draw on a range of secondary and primary source material, including research, in a variety of forms and contexts (such as fieldwork, consultation, archive) for projects and assessment.
- Learn to listen to the views of global 鈥渙thers鈥.