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ESC-10096 - Module Specification
School of Geography, Geology and the Environment
Faculty of Natural Sciences

For academic year: 2024/25 Last Updated: 17 May 2024

ESC-10096 - Planet Earth - Our Environment
Coordinator: Michael Montenari Room: WSF10A Tel: +44 1782 7 33162
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Level: Level 4
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 733615

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25

This module will provide you with the key concepts and knowledge of Earth scientific processes and how these processes interact and define the environment that surrounds us. You will gain a detailed insight into the various endogenic and exogenic processes that shaped our planet and keep changing it up to this day. It will provide you with an understanding on how life emerged and evolved - and how life as a biological component interacts with and transforms the inorganic components of the 'System Earth'.

Aims
This module will provide you with the key concepts and knowledge of Earth scientific processes and how these processes interact and define the environment that surrounds us. You will gain a detailed insight into the various endogenic and exogenic processes that shaped our planet and keep changing it up to this day. It will provide you with an understanding on how life emerged and evolved - and how life as a biological component interacts with and transforms the inorganic components of the 'System Earth'.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Describe and interpret endogenic processes: 1
Describe and interpret exogenic processes: 1
Describe and interpret the evolution and history of Life: 1

Study hours

Active Learning Hours: 12 hours interactive lectures; 36 hours practicals; 12 hours structured engagement with online resources;
Independent Study Hours: Independent study (recommended are 24 hours on background reading/online teaching materials/ reviewing module content and 66 hours for the preparation, drafting and writing of the report.

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Report weighted 100%
1500 word report
A 1.500 word report on (palaeo-)environmental change caused by endogenic-, exogenic-, and palaeobiological processes

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Last Updated: 17 May 2024