This course explores the nature and critical issues of major types of Earth resources - energy, metallic, non-metallic, water, soil - and the impacts that...

Earth Resources and Sustainability (GEOL0025)

This course explores the nature and critical issues of major types of Earth resources - energy, metallic, non-metallic, water, soil - and the impacts that resource usage has on the Earth environment. The concept of sustainability for Earth materials will be approached through discussion of thematic position topics, to encourage students to reach their own conclusions. Students will learn timescales and how geological processes control formation and distribution of resource materials, and the scope for environmental and climatic change at the Earth's surface. Key is the identification and characterisation of materials and the tools for exploration and planning for the consequences of exploitation as practised by the resource industries.

By the end of this module students will be able to demonstrate that Earth materials, which provide the foundations of modern society, are finite in abundance and non-equally distributed yet can be appreciated and profoundly informed from a geological perspective.

Prerequisites for this module are some first and/or second year Geology modules preferred. General GCSE-level (or equivalent) knowledge of maths.

LLM Specialisation: Law and Economics (LAWS0193)

The Internet is all pervasive in our experience of the world, personally, professionally and in our learning lives. A 10-week module cannot engage with every...

Internet Cultures: Theory and Practice (CCME0059)

The Internet is all pervasive in our experience of the world, personally, professionally and in our learning lives. A 10-week module cannot engage with every aspect of it. Instead, this module works by requiring students to focus on two key tasks:

To create an online presence over the 10 weeks, by designing and maintaining a blog on a topic of your own choosing and…
	To explore four key themes in recent research into Internet Cultures alongside the practical activity. These themes are:
	Social media, identity, and curation
		Learning and digital media
		Reconceptualising literacies
		Civic engagement
	
The ability to engage in a practical and theoretical sense with issues in social media, virtual worlds and other online spaces, is a key task for many professionals, from teachers, youth-workers and lecturers to a range of other occupations. The participatory web, as it has been described in the past, is also a rich area of theoretical debate, of interest to students and academics in digital media, cultural studies and new technology. This module will introduce you to theories of Internet cultures through practical engagement with blogging and other online spaces and allow you to investigate critically the arguments around their role in formal and informal learning.