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Our Changing World

Interdisciplinary course for first- and second-year students in any subject area

Unlike traditional courses, the course is based on a series of high-profile, evening public lectures on the global challenges facing society, and the role of University research and scholarship in meeting these challenges. The aims of the course are to engage you in thinking about these global issues across subject boundaries, and to understand the relevance and impact of your own subject in relation to the broad challenges.

Throughout the course, you will have opportunities to develop working and learning skills that are highly relevant to your time at University and beyond, regardless of your subject area. Students enrolled on the course will attend the Lectures, research the topics in depth, participate in facilitated group discussions on each topic, work in small groups to produce a collaborative project on a chosen topic, and produce an individual research report on a topic which may be closer to their own subject area. More details of the course structure and assessment are here.

This course will appeal to students with a good foundation in their subject area, who wish to explore their subject in a broader, interdisciplinary way. For more information, contact the course organiser. To enrol on the course, contact your Director of Studies either by email or in person.

Course info at-a-glance
First Semester course for first- and second-year students, 20 credits
Course Code:	BIME08006
Lectures:	Tuesdays, 6:30 PM
Facilitated Group Discussions:	Thursdays, AM or PM
Course organiser:	Dr Celine Caquineau, C.Caquineau@ed.ac.uk
Lecture Series organiser:	Prof Mayank Dutia, m.b.dutia@ed.ac.uk
Course administrator:	Lauren Sandford, BMTO, lauren.sandford@ed.ac.uk

Lecture series | Student information | Delivery | How to enrol | The Course Team

Global Challenges by UoE Sustainability Office

In parallel to the 2011 lecture series, The University of Edinburgh Sustainability Office and Transition Edinburgh University ran 'Global Challenges' - a series of weekly events in Semester 1 aimed at engaging the University of Edinburgh community with the challenges facing our world.

Transition Edinburgh University are a community project based at UoE aimed at helping students and staff reduce their impact on the environment. Find out more at http://www.transitionedinburghuni.org.uk/

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