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GEG-30043 - Module Specification
School of Life Sciences
Faculty of Natural Sciences

For academic year: 2025/26 Last Updated: 04 December 2025

GEG-30043 - Sustainability in the Global South
Coordinator: Lisa Lau Room: WSF29 Tel: +44 1782 7 33613
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 6
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 734414

Programme/Approved Electives for 2025/26

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None


Barred Combinations

None


Description for 2025/26

This module provides you with an in-depth, critical understanding of key debates on global sustainability. You will explore poverty, climate change adaptation, development aid, decolonisation, gendered vulnerabilities, and marginalised or Indigenous knowledges. You will learn how capitalism, race, power, and the legacies of colonialism and empire shape today’s economies, societies and cultures. And you will assess ‘what works’ in enhancing agency among people from the Global South in order to meet the Sustainable Development Goals.

Aims
This module provides you with an in-depth, critical understanding of key debates on global sustainability. You will explore poverty, climate change adaptation, development aid, decolonisation, gendered vulnerabilities, and marginalised or Indigenous knowledges. You will learn how capitalism, race, power, and the legacies of colonialism and empire shape today’s economies, societies and cultures. And you will assess ‘what works’ in enhancing agency among people from the Global South in order to meet the Sustainable Development Goals.

Intended Learning Outcomes

evaluate the challenges of sustainability for nations and communities in the global South: 1
select and interpret relevant literature to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of approaches to enhancing sustainability: 1
identify the legacies of colonialism and empire in contemporary policies and projects and critique them as a basis for policy development: 1
critically assess solutions developed in the global South to address the Sustainable Development Goals: 1

Study hours

12 x 2 hours in situ lecture-seminar activities
36 hours active learning online via Talis-Aspire comments on set readings and engaging asynchronous resources via KLE
80 hours individual consultancy report preparation
10 hours formative exercise preparation



School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Report weighted 100%
Consultancy report of 3800 words
An individual consultancy report (3800 words) on a key aspect of sustainability, set in the global South, and selected from a set list of topics, supported with a formative bibliography assessment exercise, seminar activities and surgery hours.

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: 04 December 2025