Sustainability
SUSTAIN:ability Modules
Nowadays, most businesses and organisations are working to make their operations more sustainable in response to new legislations but also motivated by ethical principles and consumer demand. There is a need for employees and leaders with a whole new set of skills, ranging from communicating change and advocacy to environmental auditing. Therefore it is important that all students have the opportunity to understand and learn more about how sustainability principles apply to their own field of study.
Under the enhanced modularity scheme students have the opportunity to take additional SUSTAIN:ability modules to compliment and enrich the programme of study. These modules range from broad knowledge in the areas of politics and anthropology to more applied disciplinary knowledge such as renewable energy and environmental law. The modules (listed below) could compliment any discipline.
There are also sustainability modules that are discipline specific and should be taken as an optional within own programme. These are listed here.
Please contact the college administrator to check availability. The modules listed might have pre-requisites that are not listed and they are subject to timetabling. They are under constant review so the offer might differ each year.
Flexible Combined Honours
| Subject | Code | Module |
|---|---|---|
| Sustainability | FCH1000 | Global Futures This interdisciplinary module introduces students to major global challenges in relation to the environment, society and the economy and explains how they are interconnected. Students are invited to reflect on their own worldviews and how sustainability relates to their career ambitions. It further gives an overview of the movement for sustainable development, international processes and agreements, and looks at potential solutions and future scenarios. |
The Business School
| Subject | Code | Module |
|---|---|---|
| Marketing | BEM1018 | Business and Society This module helps students to open up their understanding of the relationships between business and society through a focus on responsibility. |
| BEM3009 | Ethics and Organisations Managers are increasingly expected to make decisions which minimise the negative and maximise the positive social and environmental effects of their activities. This module explores some of the ethical and human rights issues confronting contemporary organisations. | |
| BEM3016 | The Business of Climate Change The aim of this module is to provide students with an understanding of the potential contribution that business can make to reducing the stock, or at least limiting the growth, of greenhouse gases. | |
| Leadership | CLS2005 | Leading Change in Theory Working towards a more sustainable society means instigating chance. Students will develop a theoretical understanding of the change process and how that process is reliant upon communication, persuasion and influence. |
| CLS3001 | Contemporary Leadership Issues The overarching aim of this module is to allow students to participate in advanced dialogue around a number of contemporary leadership issues including CSR and sustainability |
College of Humanities
| Subject | Code | Module |
|---|---|---|
| Classics and Ancient History | CLA1305 | Ancient Sources (Written Evidence): Nature and Culture Understanding the past, helps understanding the now and future. This module explores Greek culture by using ideas of nature and culture that have been applied in many disciplines and would include modern concerns over the environment, animals, global warming, etc. |
| English | TRU3016 | (Cornwall) Literature and Environment |
| History | HIC1301 | (Cornwall) World History 2: Science, Environment and Sustainability |
| HIC2315 | (Cornwall) Past Actions, Present Woes: History and Anthropogenic Climate Change | |
| HIC3305 | (Cornwall) Society, Landscape and Environment 1500-1800 | |
| HIC3307 | (Cornwall) The politics of nature-sustaining the British Environment 1800-present |
College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences
| Subject | Code | Module |
|---|---|---|
| Camborne School of Mines | CSM1274 | (Cornwall) Alternative Energy Sources |
| CSM2274 | (Cornwall) Environmental Management | |
| CSM3375 | (Cornwall) Sustainable Architecture | |
| Mathematics | ECM3730 | Mathematics of Climate Change |
| ECM3706 | Mathematical Biology and Ecology |
College of Life and Environmental Sciences
| Subject | Code | Module |
|---|---|---|
| Biosciences | BIO1408 | (Cornwall) Intro to Conservation & Ecology |
| BIO1326 | Introduction to Ecology The module introduces students to key concepts and investigative approaches in ecology | |
| BIO2406 | (Cornwall) Biodiversity & Conservation (Prereq) | |
| BIO3118 | Climate Change, Evolution and Public Perception of Science (Prereq) This module addresses the divide between scientists and the public as they relate to ecology, evolution and conservation, with particular reference to the issues of climate change and the origins of biodiversity. | |
| BIO3037 | Ecology of Environmental Change This module enables students to investigate for themselves the relationships between science and politics and to provide a better understanding of human impacts on the global environment. | |
| Geography | GEO1106 | Geographies of Global Change This module aims to provide an overview of contemporary debates related to globalisation. This is achieved through a focus on four key areas of debate; the economy, the environment, the movement of people, and the globalisation of politics. |
| GEO1207 | Earth Systems This module examines the interactions between components of the Earth System, with a particular focus on biogeographical processes and the biosphere, Earth surface processes responsible for shaping the landscape, plate tectonics and geological controls on landforms, and landscape responses to environmental change. | |
| GEO2225 | Environmental Feedbacks to Climate Change This module provides an introduction to the types of changes global warming may cause in terrestrial ecosystems, and how these will feedback to influence our climate. The carbon cycle forms the core of this module. | |
| GEO3425/GEO3425b | ( Cornwall ) Wastelands | |
| GEO3409/3409b | ( Cornwall ) Energy Policies for a local carbon economy | |
| GEO 3415/3415b | ( Cornwall ) Issues in Climatic Change | |
| GEO3126 | The Geography of Monsters: Science, Society and Environmental Risk This module investigates how different publics are formed and engage with science and risk | |
| GEO3217 | Lessons from Climates Past The module looks at different periods of time and how independent methods are used to reconstruct what the climate was like. Where appropriate, the impact of past changes on cultures and civilisations will be explored. | |
| GEO3123 | Geographies of Material Culture This module is designed to encourage students to explore connections between everyday life and larger social, cultural and economic processes | |
| Psychology | PSY3261 | Applied Social Psychology: Health, Environment and Society This module explores the application of social psychological theory to real-world problems. Across a range of social issues students are introduced to relevant theoretical models and examples of how these have informed applied interventions such as promoting healthy behaviour, managing organisational change, promoting harmony between groups, and protecting the environment |
College of Social Science and International Studies
| Subject | Code | Module |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropology, Philosophy and Sociology | SOC3078B | Eat: The Social Self as Consumer This module looks at how the contemporary social self is shaped by its involvement in economic interaction as consumer and how the changes in the world of shopping represent social change in general. |
| ANT3001 | The Politics of Nature: People, Time, Resources Students taking this module will become familiar with the current state of anthropological debate on nature, resources, and development. | |
| IAIS | ||
| Law | LAW2089 | Foundations and Critical Perspectives in Environmental Law This module addresses both a theoretical and practical foundation in environmental law. It delves into the critical and substantive issues affecting its regulation today. How can we understand the role of law in the protection of the environment? What role does justice play in managing the commons? |
| LAW2133/LAW3133 | Environment and Planning Law This module will introduce you to the main elements of environment and planning control laws with analysis of the history, politics and theory underlying them. This area of law - on issues such as windfarms and climate change - is the subject of intense litigation and controversy | |
| LAW2088/LAW3088 | International Refugee Law An introductory study of the issues facing and protections available to refugees, displaced persons and other forced migrants at international law. | |
| Politics | POL3066 | The Political Economy of Globalization This module examines the political economy of globalisation and related global governance issues. These forces and issues are examined in their historical, conceptual, political-economic and theoretical contexts. |
| POL3074 | The Politics of Climate Change This module aims to introduce students to the political and governance challenges presented by climate change. In so doing, it will demonstrate that producing effective climate policy is an inherently complex activity |
For more information contact Sustainability Curriculum Development Manager Harriet Sjerps-Jones, 01392 726133
