Postgraduate Course: Ecology, Ethics and Religion (BIME11024)

Course Outline
School	Deanery of Biomedical Sciences	College	College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	The study of ecological ethics, and the investigation of the relationship between ecological ethics and religions through primary texts in ecological ethics and religious environmentalism, and case studies of religious practice in relation to ecological issues.
Course description	Not entered

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered

Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course learners should be able to do the following: &· Expound compare and critically discuss specified concepts and approaches in ecological ethics, and religious practices and beliefs in relation to ecology. &· Describe critically the relationship between religious and philosophical narrations of creation/nature and human being, and in particular as these affect the natural environment. &· Display a capacity for moral reasoning to contemporary ecological dilemmas.