Learning Partnerships, Unit Catalogue 2010/11 |
AS30307: Environmental interpretation |
 Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Honours |
| Period: | This unit is available in... |
| Semester 1 at Wiltshire College |
| Assessment:
| CW80OT20 |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
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| Description:
| Aims: To provide students with a multidisciplinary knowledge and understanding of how diverse philosophical perceptions and practical approaches to management of the natural environment and the human condition arise from different logical premises, feelings, beliefs and value judgements. Learning Outcomes: On completion of the unit the student should be able to: * Evaluate why actions affecting the environment may be judged right or wrong from varied standpoints. * Evaluate the influence and role of logical, emotional, technological, ethical, aesthetic and moral considerations and assumptions in understanding environmental dynamics and problem solving. * Recognise how different perceptions affect analysis, modelling and management of environmental quality and change. * Integrate and apply diverse criteria to the consideration of significant environmental issues. Skills: Intellectual: * Comprehension and awareness of interrelationship between philosophical perceptions and environment management; problem solving (T, F, A) Professional: * Listening and communicating orally, in writing and non-verbally (F) Practical: * Sourcing information and opinion (F, A) Key: * Report writing (A) * Communicating effectively to a variety of audiences (F, A) Content: This unit makes reference to: * Premises underpinning definitive and fluid concepts of nature, human nature and environment * Anthropocentrism, ecocentrism and inclusional perceptions of natural geometry * Intrinsic and instrumental value of the environment * Relationship between assumptions and quantitative and qualitative evaluation and prediction of environmental condition and change * Application of traditional and non-traditional theories to contemporary issues * Individual and collective concepts of community and neighbourhood organisation, identity and membership * Conservation, preservation and attitudes to environmental change * Environmental ethics, aesthetics and their relationship with social governance * Spirituality, faith and environmental awareness * Historical context of environmental awareness. |