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GEG-20046 - Module Specification
School of Geography, Geology and the Environment
Faculty of Natural Sciences

For academic year: 2024/25 Last Updated: 24 April 2024

GEG-20046 - Making Better Worlds
Coordinator: Clare Holdsworth Tel: +44 1782 7 33167
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 5
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


Aims
To examine how understandings of global societal challenges, such as climate emergency, health inequalities, migration and race relations, are coproduced between different stakeholders. These include governments, businesses NGOS, campaigners, volunteers, community members.
To apply geographical and environmental perspectives to understanding societal challenges.
To examine different modes of activism and how these can be applied to a specific societal challenge.
To explore how responsibility for these problems is assumed and shared. Including how students themselves have the capacity to bring about change in their everyday and work lives.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Interpret modes of activism and how these are enacted by different social actors: 1,2
Evaluate the role of geographical and environmental perspectives in contributing to societal change: 1,2
Evaluate how responsibility for societal challenges is assumed and distributed: 1,2
Reflect on individual capacity to bring about change in relation to an identified societal challenge: 1,2
Assess how understandings of social responsibility and societal challenges are coproduced between different stakeholders: 1,2

Study hours

20 hours interactive lectures
9 hours seminars
9 hours structured engagement with online resources (podcasts)
42 hours revising relevant lecture material for assignments
70 hours independent research aimed at assignment completion

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Assignment weighted 50%
Podcast
Students will prepare a 10 minute podcast on a specific case study of activism. The podcast intended audience will be other students.

2: Essay weighted 50%
Essay on current topics in activism
Students will choose 2 questions from a choice of 8 on current topics in activism. Responses to these questions will engaged with specific literature. 2000 words (1000 words for each question)

Please note that for the 2022/23 Academic Year programmes may be adapted to operate in accordance with a flexible, digital approach. This means that there may be some changes made to how modules are delivered and assessed. The latest information will be provided to you by your School in module handbooks. We endeavour to give you as much notice as possible of any changes and 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/student-terms-and-conditions/

Last Updated: 24 April 2024