Module Information
Course Delivery
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | Briefing Report Briefing Report 2000 Words | 40% |
| Semester Assessment | Case Study Case Study 3000 Words | 60% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Case Study Case Study 3000 Words | 60% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Briefing Report Briefing Report 2000 Words | 40% |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
Understand and evaluate the role and perspectives of different actors involved in climate policy.
Reflect on the multi-level nature of climate change politics
Grasp and analyse policy initiatives to tackle climate change
Reflect on and critically evaluate the lessons of examples of good practice in climate policy
Assess the opportunities and challenges of global climate governance
Brief description
This module examines climate change politics and the ways in which political and governance dynamics impact upon responses to what is considered as the potentially most significant challenge to have faced human social, political and economic systems. It examines the multiple actors involved in climate change action and highlights the implicit multi-level nature of climate change politics and the interactions between different governance scales. The module also engages with evaluating the policy responses to climate change. It examines the development of the global climate governance framework, the potential and complexities of reaching meaningful global agreement and implementation on climate change.
Content
- Examines and evaluates the role and perspectives of different actors involved in climate policy
- Evaluates the multi-level nature of climate change politics
- Discusses and evaluates policy initiatives to tackle climate change
- Assesses the opportunities and challenges of global governance responses to climate change
Module Skills
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Adaptability and resilience | Students will be required to undertake independent research in order to complete the assessed work. This will involve utilizing a range of information sources, including core academic texts, journal articles, electronic publications, and online news sources. |
| Co-ordinating with others | Students will undertake team exercises in the seminars and workshops. For many of the topics of this module, seminars will consist of small-group discussions where students will be asked to discuss as a group the core issues related to the seminar topic. These class discussions and debates form a significant part of the module, and will allow students to approach and examine a given topic through team work. |
| Creative Problem Solving | Independent work and problem solving will be one central goal of the module; the submission of written assignments will require that students develop independent research skills as well as problem solving skills. The ability of students to solve problems will be developed and assessed by asking them to: adopt differing points of view; organise data and estimate an answer to the problem; consider extreme cases; reason logically; construct theoretical models; consider similar cases; look for patte |
| Critical and analytical thinking | The module aims to promote critical and analytical thinking within a context in which support and assistance is available from the module convenor and other students. Students will be expected to improve their own learning and performance by undertaking their own research and exercising their own initiative, including searching for sources and deciding how to answer assessed essay questions. |
| Digital capability | Students will enhance their proficiency using Blackboard, where materials to support learning will be made available. Students will also develop skills in searching for, and assessing the validity of, online information sources as part of preparation for lectures, seminars and assessed tasks. Assessed work will be presented in electronic format, according to standard expectations. |
| Professional communication | Students will be expected to demonstrate skills of political communication and persuasion in relation to the specific and individual assessment requirements of this module. Students will learn how to present their ideas verbally and in writing, and how to present their arguments most effectively. They will develop skills in using the many sources of information available to best advantage. They will learn to be clear in their writing and speaking and to be direct about aims and objectives. They |
| Real world sense | The module is designed to hone and test skills of use to students in their working lives, particularly in speaking to small groups, listening, thinking and responding to the statement of others. Moreover, the written work requires students not only to write clearly and concisely, which is a common task in the workplace, but to develop and demonstrate advanced skills of communication and persuasion. Students will be encouraged throughout to reflect on their performance and to consider lessons for |
| Reflection | The module aims to promote self-management but within a context in which support and assistance is available from the module convenor and other students. |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 5