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University of Glasgow: Environment, Culture and Communication (Dumfries Campus)

Institution University of Glasgow View institution profile
Department School of Social & Environmental Sustainability View department profile
Web glasgow.ac.uk/dumfries
Study type Taught

Summary

This programme explores the relationships we hold with our ‘wild’ environments, and how these evolved. You will develop a knowledge of environmental debates from both cultural and scientific perspectives, and learn to communicate environmental issues using a variety of tools and strategies. The programme is suitable for students with or without a specialism in literary or environmental studies.

This interdisciplinary programme focuses on the emergent field of Ecocriticism and the wider Environmental Humanities, and aims to enable students to understand environmental issues from multiple perspectives.

The School of Interdisciplinary Studies is one of the UK’s foremost pockets of expertise in interdisciplinary environmental teaching and research.

  • The programme connects its activities to the wider environment in applied ways through fieldtrips to varied locations, including the Galloway and Southern Ayrshire Biosphere Reserve, the Galloway Forest Dark Sky Park, the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park, and the Lake District National Park. Dumfries & Galloway is also home to the world-class Crawick Multiverse, designed by the internationally renowned land artist Charles Jencks.
  • Dumfries & Galloway, in south west Scotland, is an ideal location for environmental study and research. The unspoilt beaches, hills and forests provide a stunning and diverse outdoor classroom, while the region’s thriving artistic community, which specialises in environmental art, is a source of inspiration.
  • The degree features a programme of guest speakers from relevant fields and publications.

You will take three core and three optional courses. There is a choice of project work: you can choose to engage with a particular contemporary environmental issue or case study, or to undertake a personal interaction with the features of a particular location, examining notions of place creatively. You will also undertake a dissertation, through which you can develop and demonstrate independent research skills or a work placement where you will undertake research in a relevant organisation or company.

Core courses

  • ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATION*
  • ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS AND SOCIETY*
  • READING THE ENVIRONMENT: OLD AND NEW WORLD ROMANTICISMS
  • WRITING THE ENVIRONMENT: MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY NATURE WRITING

*You must take at least one of these courses.

Optional courses may include

  • A CULTURAL HISTORY OF ANIMALS
  • ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION
  • ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS AND BEHAVIOUR CHANGE
  • TOURISM SUSTAINABILITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Graduates are prepared to enter fields from environmental journalism and education, to public relations, advertising and consultancy roles. The interdisciplinary nature of the programme means your skills are also tailored towards emerging fields such as negotiating between scientific fact and cultural understanding of climate change, and the ‘anticipatory history’ that must inform landscape management in the future. Graduates have gone on to work for environmental NGOs, ecological arts organisations, and undertaken further study at PhD level.

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The University of Glasgow’s School of Social & Environmental Sustainability is located in south-west Scotland with a close-knit community of students from across the UK and around the world. Combining idyllic surroundings with academic excellence from one of the world’s top universities, Dumfries Campus is the perfect setting to give you an incredible student experience.

Founded in 1451, the University of Glasgow is the fourth oldest university in the English-speaking world. The University has a history of changing the world, and the School of Social & Environmental Sustainability provides the opportunity for students to learn from experts across a variety …

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