澳门六合彩开奖记录
RE1ESD: Ethics and Sustainable Development
Module code: RE1ESD
Module provider: Real Estate and Planning; Henley Business School
Credits: 20
Level: 4
When you'll be taught: Semester 2
Module convenor: Dr Claudia Beatriz Murray, email: c.b.murray@henley.reading.ac.uk
Additional teaching staff 1: Miss Jane Batchelor, email: j.m.batchelor@reading.ac.uk
Additional teaching staff 2: Dr Ji Hei Lee, email: j.h.lee@henley.edu.my
Pre-requisite module(s):
Co-requisite module(s): IN THE SAME YEAR AS TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST TAKE RE1ISS AND TAKE RE1PLRI (Compulsory)
Pre-requisite or Co-requisite module(s):
Module(s) excluded:
Placement information: NA
Academic year: 2024/5
Available to visiting students: No
Talis reading list: Yes
Last updated: 19 November 2024
Overview
Module aims and purpose
This module focuses on the adoption of ESG-related considerations for responsible business practices throughout real estate life cycle stages, including urban and architectural design, development, construction, operation, refurbishment, retrofitting and regeneration.聽
It provides students with an opportunity to identify and debate academic, policy and practice challenges surrounding sustainability transitions to fairer transformative outcomes for real estate and planning practice. Students will develop a systematic understanding and critical awareness of sustainability and resilience concepts. They will identify and debate the drivers and barriers to policy and practice actions relevant to a range of stakeholders in the built environment, as well as聽its ethical implications.
The module lead at the 澳门六合彩开奖记录 Malaysia is Dr Ji Hei Lee.聽
Module learning outcomes
By the end of the module, it is expected that students will be able to:
- Identify and debate how the evolving concepts of sustainability and resilience, their principles of sustainable development goals, and their impact assessment tools, and performance measures relate to fairer transformative outcomes.聽
- Engage in evidence-based debate on the substance, competing motives or standpoints, roles, and relevance of sustainability and resilience strategies, as an area of real estate and planning practice and research.聽
- Explain both the causes of concern behind sustainability and resilience strategies, and the appropriateness of methods and mechanisms put forward to address them in practice.聽
- Describe the significant barriers and challenges related to sustainability transitions for real estate markets and planning practice.聽
Module content
- Concepts of sustainability and resilience聽
- Global sustainable development goals, policy frameworks and regulation聽
- Sustainable Development and risk governance
- Sustainability and Environmental Social Governance (ESG)
- Values, Ethics and Business Responsibility
- Leadership, Reputation and Corruption聽
Structure
Teaching and learning methods
The module comprises lectures and practitioner-led seminars, including career management skills and a field trip. The overall objective of the assessment is to provide insights into sustainability and resilience practices, and business responsibility. The coursework consists of group oral assessment and reflective diary.聽
For students studying at our campus in Malaysia: This module may be taught in a different semester and the breakdown of study hours may differ to those set out in the Study Hours table (please refer to the Module Handbook for the correct breakdown). In addition, you will be required to complete an additional 40 hours of study, taking the total number of study hours to 240 for this module. This is to comply with the Malaysian Quality Agency (MQA).聽
The in-person teaching hours include聽Career Management Skills (CMS) sessions (14 hours).
Study hours
At least 30 hours of scheduled teaching and learning activities will be delivered in person, with the remaining hours for scheduled and self-scheduled teaching and learning activities delivered either in person or online. You will receive further details about how these hours will be delivered before the start of the module.
聽Scheduled teaching and learning activities | 聽Semester 1 | 聽Semester 2 | 听厂耻尘尘别谤 |
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Lectures | 20 | ||
Seminars | 8 | ||
Tutorials | |||
Project Supervision | |||
Demonstrations | |||
Practical classes and workshops | |||
Supervised time in studio / workshop | |||
Scheduled revision sessions | |||
Feedback meetings with staff | |||
Fieldwork | |||
External visits | 10 | ||
Work-based learning | |||
聽Self-scheduled teaching and learning activities | 聽Semester 1 | 聽Semester 2 | 听厂耻尘尘别谤 |
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Directed viewing of video materials/screencasts | 6 | ||
Participation in discussion boards/other discussions | |||
Feedback meetings with staff | |||
Other | |||
Other (details) | |||
聽Placement and study abroad | 聽Semester 1 | 聽Semester 2 | 听厂耻尘尘别谤 |
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Placement | |||
Study abroad | |||
聽Independent study hours | 聽Semester 1 | 聽Semester 2 | 听厂耻尘尘别谤 |
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Independent study hours | 156 |
Please note the independent study hours above are notional numbers of hours; each student will approach studying in different ways. We would advise you to reflect on your learning and the number of hours you are allocating to these tasks.
Semester 1 The hours in this column may include hours during the Christmas holiday period.
Semester 2 The hours in this column may include hours during the Easter holiday period.
Summer The hours in this column will take place during the summer holidays and may be at the start and/or end of the module.
Assessment
Requirements for a pass
Students need to achieve an overall module mark of 40% to pass this module.
Summative assessment
Type of assessment | Detail of assessment | % contribution towards module mark | Size of assessment | Submission date | Additional information |
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Oral assessment | Group Presentation | 30 | 10 minutes | During the Semester 2 Assessment Weeks | Linked to Field Trip (Week 12) |
Written coursework assignment | Essay | 70 | 3,000 words | During the Semester 2 Assessment Weeks | Essay question will be provided |
Penalties for late submission of summative assessment
The Support Centres will apply the following penalties for work submitted late:
Assessments with numerical marks
- where the piece of work is submitted after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension to the deadline): 10% of the total marks available for that piece of work will be deducted from the mark for each working day (or part thereof) following the deadline up to a total of three working days;
- the mark awarded due to the imposition of the penalty shall not fall below the threshold pass mark, namely 40% in the case of modules at Levels 4-6 (i.e. undergraduate modules for Parts 1-3) and 50% in the case of Level 7 modules offered as part of an Integrated Masters or taught postgraduate degree programme;
- where the piece of work is awarded a mark below the threshold pass mark prior to any penalty being imposed, and is submitted up to three working days after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension to the deadline), no penalty shall be imposed;
- where the piece of work is submitted more than three working days after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension to the deadline): a mark of zero will be recorded.
Assessments marked Pass/Fail
- where the piece of work is submitted within three working days of the deadline (or any formally agreed extension of the deadline): no penalty will be applied;
- where the piece of work is submitted more than three working days after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension of the deadline): a grade of Fail will be awarded.
The University policy statement on penalties for late submission can be found at: /cqsd/-/media/project/functions/cqsd/documents/qap/penaltiesforlatesubmission.pdf
You are strongly advised to ensure that coursework is submitted by the relevant deadline. You should note that it is advisable to submit work in an unfinished state rather than to fail to submit any work.
Formative assessment
Formative assessment is any task or activity which creates feedback (or feedforward) for you about your learning, but which does not contribute towards your overall module mark.
Each week students will have the opportunity to reflect on the previous week鈥檚 session; structured in-class debates will accompany the reflective journal.
Reassessment
Type of reassessment | Detail of reassessment | % contribution towards module mark | Size of reassessment | Submission date | Additional information |
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Written coursework assignment | Essay | 100 | 4,000 words | During the University Resit Period | Essay question will be provided. |
Additional costs
Item | Additional information | Cost |
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Computers and devices with a particular specification | ||
Required textbooks | ||
Specialist equipment or materials | ||
Specialist clothing, footwear, or headgear | ||
Printing and binding | ||
Travel, accommodation, and subsistence |
THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS MODULE DESCRIPTION DOES NOT FORM ANY PART OF A STUDENT'S CONTRACT.