Political Ecology and Environmental Justice (013IDS)

30 credits, Level 6

Spring teaching

On this module, you’ll be introduced to the concepts of environmental justice and political ecology, a set of approaches to understanding the relationship between environmental change and social justice.

The module encourages you to approach political ecology as a ‘public-facing’ discipline, engaging with activism and social movements. This includes the assessments, which are designed around public communication. This will provide you with opportunities to build employability skills and to engage with real-world struggles.

The module is split into three sections:

  1. theoretical insights of political ecology and environmental justice
  2. workshops on communications techniques and groupwork on your assessments
  3. series of case studies and guest speakers drawing on issues of political ecological concern.

Teaching

100%: Seminar

Assessment

40%: Coursework (Group presentation, Report)
60%: Written assessment (Essay)

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 300 hours of work. This breaks down into about 33 hours of contact time and about 267 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2025/26. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.

Courses

This module is offered on the following courses: