Liberal Arts
Global Humanities 2: Hope and Fear - Cultures, Climates, Ecologies
Module code: Q9111
Level 4
15 credits in spring semester
Teaching method: Workshop
Assessment modes: Coursework
This module gives you an inter-disciplinary perspective on the relationship between people and their environments, drawing together tutors from across the arts, humanities, and geographical and social sciences.
Environment, climate and ecology will function as both metaphorical and literal terms. Culture has its own ‘ecology,’ for example.
You will consider how relationships with ‘environment’ affect the wellbeing of both people and the environment.
You will study the environment as represented in:
- literature
- cinema
- acoustic ecology
- car culture
- many other forms.
You’ll question where our cultural and built environment ends, where something else begins and how we inhabit both.
Module learning outcomes
- Make interdisciplinary connections between different ideas about the environment.
- Identify key aspects of environment, climate and ecologyand show how this can relate to everyday life.
- Develop and defend arguments in relation to key aspects of environment, cultures and ecologies (as examined within this module).
- Engage in effective collaboration with others.