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GCP-10021 - Module Specification
School of Life Sciences
Faculty of Natural Sciences

For academic year: 2025/26 Last Updated: 13 December 2025

GCP-10021 - Climate Change and Sustainability: Global Perspectives
Coordinator: Adam Moolna Tel: +44 1782 7 34115
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 4
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 734414

Programme/Approved Electives for 2025/26

Global Challenge Pathway Global Challenge Pathway (Level 4)


Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2025/26

Do you want to explore the impacts of climate change in different countries? Do you want to engage with sustainability professionals working
towards solutions? This module explores climate change impacts and the solutions being adopted on a global scale. You will hear from different sustainability professionals, understand how climate change integrates with other sustainability challenges and learn about the role of various disciplines in addressing these issues. We will also examine the United Nations' response to climate and sustainability crises.

Aims
This module aims to introduce you to the impacts of human-caused climate change and solutions in different parts of the world, and explore how climate change impacts and solutions interact with other sustainability issues, through discussion with partners from different regions around the world. The module will also critically explore different United Nations responses to climate change and sustainability issues from the Sustainable Development Goals to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and critically explore the impact of these international agendas in different countries around the world.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Describe different countries’ approaches to address climate mitigation, adaptation and the implementation of nature-based
solutions in the context of a range of different international sustainability frameworks (e.g. UN SDGs/UNFCCC)
: 1
Use digital media to communicate climate change and sustainability to a specific audience
: 1
Reflect on their own sustainability behaviours and career aspirations and the personal, societal and systemic factors contributing to these behaviours and aspirations: 2
Apply an interdisciplinary approach to the exploration of climate change and sustainability related issues within different cultural contexts: 1

Study hours

32 hours in-class active learning sessions, including timetabled group work sessions in Semester 2
75 hours group work (~ 3 hrs per week) including structured group learning activities and preparation of group assessment
43 hours independent study including preparation for independent assessment

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Group Assessment weighted 60%
Podcast
The group project will take the form of a 10 minute podcast. Students will work in small interdisciplinary groups (3-5 students) to produce their podcast about climate change impacts and solutions in their chosen country. The grade for this assessment will be calculated from a mark awarded to the podcast itself (90%) and from a peer calculated mark based on peer feedback (10%)

2: Reflective Diary weighted 40%
Independent Reflective Blog
Students will submit an independent reflective blog covering reflections on their own learning, development and behaviours in sustainability. This will be submitted in two parts across the two semesters to stagger engagement with assessments and assessment support. The first part will require students to reflect on sustainable behaviours based around a focused two days of thinking about living sustainably; and the second will require students to focus on their learning and development (including behaviour change) around sustainability throughout the module.

The University undertakes a continuous review of its teaching and research provision to ensure programmes are of a high quality and changes may be made to modules where it is necessary and reasonable to do so. Please be aware that minor changes to modules, such as a change to an individual assessment, can occur up until enrolment, although we endeavour to give you as much notice as possible of any changes. Details about the circumstance in which changes are made to programmes can be found in the Student Agreement, available at: https://www.keele.ac.uk/legalgovernancecompliance/governance/actcharterstatutesordinancesandregulations/studenttermsconditions/

Last Updated: 13 December 2025