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SP32069: Global development in the climate crisis

[Page last updated: 23 May 2025]

Academic Year: 2025/26
Owning Department/School: Department of Social & Policy Sciences
Credits: 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 200
Level: Honours (FHEQ level 6)
Period:
Academic Year
Assessment Summary: CWPG 25%, CWSI 75%
Assessment Detail:
  • Set exercises Individual (CWSI 75% - Qualifying Mark: 40)
  • Project output Group (CWPG 25%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand anthropogenic climate change and related concepts. 2. Analyse the social, political and economic causes of the intractability of climate change as a societal problem and its implications for development trajectories, focusing especially on low and middle-income countries. 3. Be able to identify the distributional effects of climate change on different countries and groups and understand how socio-economic inequality and environmental vulnerability interact. 4. Identify policy responses and their implications for vulnerable communities at the international, national and local levels. 5. Use social science disciplinary perspectives to analyse mitigation and adaptation policy responses in low- and middle-income countries. 6. Have deeper insight into the complex relationship between structural transformation and individual perspectives and action for solving the climate crisis. Skills:
  • To think creatively and analytically.
  • To communicate an argument.
  • To evaluate others' arguments and research.
  • To learn independently and be able to assess own learning needs (i.e. identify strengths and improve weaknesses in methods of learning and studying).
  • To critically evaluate and assess research and evidence as well as a variety of other information.
  • To synthesise information from a number of sources in order to gain a coherent understanding.
  • Study & learning skills (note taking, avoiding plagiarism, using the library, gathering and using information, constructing a bibliography, referencing).
  • Basic ICT skills (word processing, email, using the web, use of VLEs).
  • Interpersonal, reflexive and communication skills.
  • Coursework research, preparation and writing skills.
  • To construct a bibliography.
  • Case study writing skills.
  • Working in a team to produce a piece of joint work.
  • To manage time effectively and respond to changing demands.



Synopsis: "Examine how anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are changing the climate in ways that are fundamentally altering current and future development trajectories. You will engage with contemporary analysis and debates regarding the impact of climate change on different countries, groups, and communities across the world (especially those who are poor and vulnerable). You will also explore how climate change redefines international development."

Content: This unit examines how anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are changing the climate in ways that are fundamentally altering current and future development trajectories. It engages with contemporary analysis and debates regarding the impact of climate change on different countries, groups, and communities across the world (especially those who are poor and vulnerable). It also explores how climate change redefines international development.

Course availability:

SP32069 is Optional on the following courses:

Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
  • UHPL-AFB53 : BSc(Hons) Politics and International Relations (Year 3)
  • UHPL-AAB30 : BSc(Hons) Politics and International Relations with Study year abroad (Year 4)
  • UHPL-AKB30 : BSc(Hons) Politics and International Relations with Year long work placement (Year 4)
  • UHPL-AFB54 : BSc(Hons) Politics with Economics (Year 3)
  • UHPL-AAB10 : BSc(Hons) Politics with Economics with Study year abroad (Year 4)
  • UHPL-AKB10 : BSc(Hons) Politics with Economics with Year long work placement (Year 4)
Department of Social & Policy Sciences
  • UHSP-AFB30 : BSc(Hons) Criminology (Year 3)
  • UHSP-AKB22 : BSc(Hons) Criminology with Year long work placement (Year 4)
  • UHSP-AFB31 : BSc(Hons) International Development with Economics (Year 3)
  • UHSP-AKB21 : BSc(Hons) International Development with Economics with Year long work placement (Year 4)
  • UHSP-AFB37 : BSc(Hons) Social Sciences (Year 3)
  • UHSP-AKB05 : BSc(Hons) Social Sciences with Year long work placement (Year 4)

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