Using an environmentalist framework, this course offers various cultural explorations of perceiving, engaging and sustainably interacting with built and "natural" space. Using examples from housing and planning, ecocritical theory, and phenomenological research, and applying them to literary and cinematic sources, this module will engage with intertwined environmental and social crises at a local and global scale. Glasgow and the Scottish landscape will be used to investigate the past, present, and future implications of climate change, in relation with wide-ranging societal and political questions.

10 x 2 hours weekly seminars as scheduled in MyCampus

All classes will include frontal teaching alongside seminar discussions.

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The standard assessments for this course are:

■ Presentation (also as Group Presentation) - 15mins - 30%

■ Reflective Essay - 2500 words - 70%

If required, for instance where a disability prevents a student from undertaking a specific method of assessment, the following alternatives are available:

■ Recorded presentation (video or audio) or one-to-one presentation with staff as alternative to the Presentation

■ There is no alternative to the Reflective essay, but extensions to the deadlines can be offered as reasonable adjustment (students should follow the usual process for extensions).

Further reasonable adjustments may be provided where necessary. Students are encouraged to consult with the course convenor.

This course aims to:

■ Provide students with a theoretical and practical understanding of how humans have perceived and impacted on their environment over time.

■ Explore how culture and art have contributed to shaping these perceptions historically and how they may contribute to shaping the future.

■ Enable students to apply key environmental and ecocritical theory and creative practices to their surroundings in order to explore and identify creative solutions towards climate change, housing issues and the provision of green spaces.

■ Allow students to apply theoretical and creative approaches to the Scottish environment using Glasgow and Scotland as a lens.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ Critically examine how humans have perceived and impacted upon their environment in relation to specific examples, applying relevant theories.

■ Analyse interconnections between perceptions of the environment and textual representations.

■ Generate creative ideas about future human dwelling within environments that react to existing and potential areas of social tension, such as climate change or food security.

■ Present coherent arguments in oral and written forms on how to apply theoretical, historical and cultural approaches critically to contemporary environmental issues.