2022/3, Trimester 2, BLENDED, Edinburgh Napier University
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| Occurrence: | 001 |
| Primary mode of delivery: | BLENDED |
| Location of delivery: | SIGHTHILL |
| Partner: | Edinburgh Napier University |
| Member of staff responsible for delivering module: | Mark Huxham |
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| Learning, Teaching and Assessment (LTA) Approach: |
This module is offered across the University as a choice for students from all schools. It is designed to help bring us together, regardless of disciplines and backgrounds, to increase our understanding of sustainability and to allow us to work together to make the world better. Please note that to find time in the timetable for everyone to meet, you will be required to attend a workshop on SATURDAY of week 4, along with a session in person on the FRIDAY of week 1. The focus is on working in interdisciplinary teams on projects that you help design and that can have a positive impact on sustainability (Learning Outcome 1). You will be involved in designing the assessment for these projects, to ensure that this is appropriate for what you want to do and that it relates to one of the key principles of sustainability - from science, culture, economics or philosophy - that we will discuss(Learning Outcome 2). Each team will be allocated a coach, from the teaching staff, to help you in this process.You will also consider what your home discipline can offer to achieving a sustainable world and will explain this to students from other disciplines (Formative Assessment 1). You will produce a 'sustainability CV' and receive feedback on it (Formative Assessment 2). Lectures and workshops will consider sustainability from scientific, cultural and business perspectives. In addition, you will look at the psychological and emotional implications of studying and working for sustainability and share ways in which we can build emotional resilience in the face of these challenges.
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• Explain, in a one to one conversation, what sustainability means, why it is important and what it means to you personally.• Produce a sustainability CV explaining your relevant skills and experience• Give a presentation explaining the assumptions and values of your core discipline and how these are relevant to sustainability
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Main assessment – to work in a small inter-disciplinary team to design and deliver a project dealing with sustainability that has potential for impact. This impact could be on a single individual, on a process in or outside the university, on a campaign, on understanding or on other people and things. You will help design the assessment for this work; it should demonstrate why the focus of the project is important in the context of sustainability (with reference to the different scientific, social and cultural elements of sustainability we study in this module), how well you integrate the skills in your team and how you could achieve impact.
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| Student Activity (Notional Equivalent Study Hours (NESH)) |
| Mode of activity | Learning & Teaching Activity | NESH (Study Hours) |
| Online | Lecture | 8 |
| Face To Face | Groupwork (Scheduled) | 4 |
| Online | Groupwork (Scheduled) | 8 |
| Online | Seminar | 6 |
| Independent Learning | Groupwork (Independent Study) | 90 |
| Independent Learning | Demonstration | 4 |
| Independent Learning | Seminar | 80 |
| Total Study Hours | 200 |
| Expected Total Study Hours for Module | 200 |
| Assessment |
| Type of Assessment | Weighting % | LOs covered | Week due | Length in Hours/Words |
| Project - Practical | 100 | 1,2 | 12 | HOURS= 01.00 |
| Component 1 subtotal: | 100 | |
| Component 2 subtotal: | 0 | | | |
| Module subtotal: | 100 | | | |