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ENVP3000W

Academic Year 2024/2025

Environ Change & Trans Policy (ENVP3000W)

Subject:
Environmental Policy
College:
Engineering & Architecture
School:
Architecture, Plan & Env Pol
Level:
3 (Degree)
Credits:
5
Module Coordinator:
Dr Tadhg O'Mahony
Trimester:
Spring
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

The aim of this module is to introduce students to processes of environmental change and to explore how transport policymakers have responded to these challenges. The module has three primary components: firstly, it will examine key environmental challenges facing society across different spatial scales. This will introduce a range of issues, from global environmental issues such as climate change, to more local concerns such as environmental quality, land use change, transport and congestion and various forms of pollution. Secondly, the module will consider the relationship between transport, environment and society. This will include an exploration of the changing ways society has viewed or valued transport within the environment and will also chart the emergence of environmentalism as a force in policy and politics. Thirdly, the module will outline the responses of transport policy to environmental change.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

On the successful completion of the course, you should be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of key environmental challenges at a range of spatial scales;
- Outline the changing relationship between nature and society with particular reference to transport;
- Describe and explain the rationale for environmental policy in the context of transport;
- Examine the key instruments for environmental policy in the transport sector;
- Begin to develop critical reading and also presentation and writing skills.

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Autonomous Student Learning

74
Lectures

26
Total

100

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
The key teaching and learning approaches used in this module include traditional lectures; group work for problem-solving; and developing individual critical thinking in reading and writing.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations
Learning Exclusions:

This module is delivered overseas and is not available to students based at the UCD Belfield or UCD Blackrock campuses.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Assignment(Including Essay): Short writing assignments 1 of 2. This will be held in-person and in-class in response to a prompt or open-ended question(s). Week 8 Graded No
30
 Yes
Assignment(Including Essay): Short writing assignments 2 of 2. This will be held in-person and in-class in response to a prompt or open-ended question(s). Week 12 Graded No
30
 Yes
Group Work Assignment: Group work assignment on topic identified from the module. Week 15 Graded No
40
 Yes

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 

Resit In Terminal Exam
Summer No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Not yet recorded.

Name Role
Dr Tadhg O'Mahony Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
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