Module Catalogue 2024/25

Pre Requisite Comment

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Co Requisite Comment

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Aims

The module provides an introduction to Urban Energy as an emergent academic field of inquiry and professional practice. It is intended specifically for students who wish to gain an awareness and understanding of how energy is shaping our urban environments.

Outline Of Syllabus

The module consists of a series lectures, workshops, and seminars delivered in a block teaching format and additional, weekly, project supervisory tutorials with the module leader to research a selected project in depth. The module explores Urban Energy holistically and thematically. As a way of example, key themes to be explored are: Policy, Technology, Analysis, and Practice.

Students will be assessed through the production of a report on a selected case study or creative project. The report should therefore demonstrate the students’ ability to apply the principles, theories and practice of Urban Energy into a study proposal as well as outlining future work directions. Qualitative, quantitative, creative or mixed approaches can be followed. As a way of example, students could carry out focus groups, surveys, creative interventions or analytical analysis on salient aspects of the selected Urban Energy case study or creative project.

Intended Knowledge Outcomes

To equip students with an awareness and understanding of the following areas:

Energy policy initiatives, strategies and future trends in the context of urban areas.
Energy technologies relevant to urban areas.
Analysis techniques and methods to evaluate policy and technology initiatives in urban areas.
Current professional practice applied to existing energy challenges in urban areas.

Intended Skill Outcomes

Students will gain a critical multi-faceted understanding of energy in urban environments.

Students will gain practical analytical experience when applying existing techniques to address current energy challenges

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

A mixture of scheduled and structured activities, including recorded mini lectures, reading and skills based tasks to be carried out individually and in small student groups replace a chronological lecture based module, in order for students to build their knowledge of urban energy and develop the skills to locate and evaluate information independently.

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

As a practical module, it will assess the students’ ability to understand Urban Energy’s principles, theories, and practicalities in a holistically and thematically way. Students will present results of their own practical work, and to draw conclusions from this work

General Notes

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