Social Ecology - N832008
Title: Sociální ekologie
Guaranteed by: Department of Chemical Education and Humanities (832)
Faculty: Central University Departments of UCT Prague
Actual: from 2022
Semester: summer
Points: summer s.:2
E-Credits: summer s.:2
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
State of the course: cancelled
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Volenec Otakar PhDr. CSc.
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
The course deepens students’ knowledge of the development of the environment and its protection both in the Czech Republic and in the world.
Last update: TAJ832 (19.11.2013)
Literature -

R: Gore Al., Země na misce vah.

Last update: TAJ832 (04.09.2013)
Syllabus -

1. The contemporary Green movement both in the Czech Republic and in the world

2. Theory of Green politics and its tendency to fundamentalism

3. The Club of Rome and its "Limits to Growth" report as a impulse to the development of ecological research

4. Limits of the economic growth and the consumer society

5. Pollution of Biosphere

6. Problems of mineral resources and nuclear energy

7. Demographic explosion and the threat of human overpopulation

8. Ecology with regard to philosophy of technology

9. Technology as a constitutive factor of a human being

10. Negative and positive aspects of technology for people and the environment

11. Contemporary discussions about consequences of future technological development

12. Questions of transcendental foundations of human beings

13. Possible future developments of science

14. Problems of the sustainable growth

Last update: TAJ832 (04.09.2013)
Learning resources -

None.

Last update: TAJ832 (04.09.2013)
Learning outcomes -

Students will be able to understand the relationship between a society and its environment and the necessity of environmental protection.

Last update: TAJ832 (04.09.2013)
Registration requirements -

None.

Last update: TAJ832 (04.09.2013)
Teaching methods
Activity Credits Hours
Účast na přednáškách 1 28
Příprava na přednášky, semináře, laboratoře, exkurzi nebo praxi 1 28
2 / 2 56 / 56
Coursework assessment
Form Significance
Regular attendance 50
Continuous assessment of study performance and course -credit tests 50