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PSY-30160 - Module Specification
School of Psychology
Faculty of Natural Sciences

For academic year: 2024/25 Last Updated: 21 December 2024

PSY-30160 - Psychology of Climate Change
Coordinator: Sara Vestergren Tel: +44 1782 7 33669
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 6
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 733736

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
This module aims to provide students with a broader understanding of the human involvement in climate change, both in relation to the problem and the solution. This module will provide students with tools to critically reflect on individual, collective, societal, and global behaviours and concepts in relation to climate change.

Intended Learning Outcomes

critically appraise and apply relevant literature within specific areas of climate change: 1
critically reflect upon human causes of climate change and short- and long-term sustainability: 1
design and communicate a strategy plan using theory and research to analyse the problem and offer sustainable solutions in the climate change context: 1

Study hours

10h synchronous whole group interactive session
10h PBL style seminar

10h asynchronous material in preparation for PBL seminars
120h independent reading*
*Independent reading:
Students are expected to spend approximately 7.5h per week independently finding and reading literature to address the question they have created that week in their seminar group (approx. 75h).
Students are expected to spend approximately 45h writing up the assessment (approx. 45h; literature and narrative already created in the seminars).

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Report weighted 100%
Strategy document (portfolio style)


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Last Updated: 21 December 2024