Postgraduate Course: Interrelationships in Food Systems (PGGE11166)
Course Outline
| School | School of Geosciences |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Postgraduate Courses (School of GeoSciences) |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course will focus on conflicts and trade-off among the objectives that are required of food systems. Using health and welfare as central concepts on the course will examine what is required for a healty environment (including specific resources such as soil), human health and welfare, healthy crops and livestock and the extent to which attempting to maximise any one of these may (or not) lead to conflicts with others. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2014/15 Semester 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: 60 |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Course Start Date |
12/01/2015 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 33,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
163 )
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
On completion of the programme, students will:
-Have an understanding of the global context of food security including its political, economic, social and environmental components.
-Be able to identify the main trade-offs that might exist between food security and other desirable goals.
-Be able to carry out independant research (either proactical or desk-based) and prodcue reports of the research in a number of different formats (eg. written, verbal)
-Be competent in constructing logically sound arguments and analysing scientific theories and data-generating methodologies (eg. experiments, surveys).
-Have expertise in at least one specialist area (eg. modelling or food supply chain analysis). |
Assessment Information
| Course Work: seminar (20%), seminar report (20%, 1000words) and essay (60%,2000words) |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
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| Study Abroad |
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| Study Pattern |
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| Keywords | Food Security Healthy Environment Global Change Environment |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Michael Macleod
Tel:
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Course secretary | Mrs Elspeth Martin
Tel: 0131 535 4198
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