Global Sustainability Studies

About the course package

This course package of 30 credits offers you the following courses:

Project Management, Engagement and Communication for Sustainability, 15 credits

Do you want to do a sustainability project, reach others and change the world? Then this is a course for you!

In this course, you plan and run a sustainability project in an international and interdisciplinary student group. The course gives you an introduction to project management. Throughout the course, you will work with practical and creative tools for planning, delivery, communication and evaluation of the project. In the course, you come up with a project idea that is shaped in lectures, workshops and seminars and is further developed through peer review and feedback sessions.

When the project proposal has been accepted, you run your project with the support of the course coordinators and CEMUS as a resource base. While there are some individual assignments, the main focus is on group work and assignments.

The course is offered at CEMUS, Centre for Environment and Development Studies, in a student-led educational model where students actively contribute to shaping the courses and their content, creating a student-centred learning environment.

Sustainability Challenges in Sweden, 7.5 credits

Sweden is often described as a world leader in sustainable development, but on what basis? What are the sustainability challenges in Sweden, and is there anything that distinguishes Swedish initiatives for sustainability? How can various initiatives in the field of sustainability in Sweden be improved and revised through a critical review, discussion and process?

This course is designed to examine some of Sweden's sustainability challenges, and the image of Sweden by taking a closer, critical look at how Sweden has worked with sustainable development historically and how well current initiatives can serve as a model for sustainability on a global level. Through interaction with various academics and professionals, this course allows you to examine various sustainable development successes and failures in Sweden from different perspectives. The various case studies and examples from Sweden problematise the environmental, economic, and social aspects of sustainable development. As such, this course challenges you to grapple with the highly contested concept of 'sustainable development', and apply it to the Swedish context.

This course overlaps with the course Critical Perspectives on Sustainable Development in Sweden (1MV072) and cannot be used in the same degree.

The course is offered at CEMUS, Centre for Environment and Development Studies, in a student-led educational model where students actively contribute to shaping the courses and their content, creating a student-centred learning environment.

Global Challenges and Sustainable Futures, 7.5 credits

What are the challenges facing humanity today and in the future? How can we create and rediscover sustainable ways of living on this planet?

With accelerating trends such as climate change, water scarcity, energy depletion, social injustice, economic crisis, resource wars and other challenges, there is a growing need for sustainable alternatives. This course connects guest lectures that describe the severity of the challenges and workshops that discuss the possible sustainable responses and solutions to those challenges. You will have the opportunity to link global challenges to your own local and cultural background.

The course is offered at CEMUS, Centre for Environment and Development Studies, in a student-led educational model where students actively contribute to shaping the courses and their content, creating a student-centred learning environment.