IT, Sustainability and Social Responsibility
Course, Master's level, 1DL008
Autumn 2023 Autumn 2023, Uppsala, 33%, On-campus, English
- Location
- Uppsala
- Pace of study
- 33%
- Teaching form
- On-campus
- Instructional time
- Daytime
- Study period
- 28 August 2023–30 October 2023
- Language of instruction
- English
- Entry requirements
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120 credits including 60 credits in computer science. Proficiency in English equivalent to the Swedish upper secondary course English 6.
- Selection
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Higher education credits in science and engineering (maximum 240 credits)
- Fees
-
If you are not a citizen of a European Union (EU) or European Economic Area (EEA) country, or Switzerland, you are required to pay application and tuition fees.
- Application fee: SEK 900
- First tuition fee instalment: SEK 12,083
- Total tuition fee: SEK 12,083
- Application deadline
- 17 April 2023
- Application code
- UU-11042
Admitted or on the waiting list?
- Registration period
- 28 July 2023–4 September 2023
- Information on registration
Autumn 2024 Autumn 2024, Uppsala, 33%, On-campus, English
- Location
- Uppsala
- Pace of study
- 33%
- Teaching form
- On-campus
- Instructional time
- Daytime
- Study period
- 2 September 2024–3 November 2024
- Language of instruction
- English
- Entry requirements
-
120 credits including 60 credits in computer science. Proficiency in English equivalent to the Swedish upper secondary course English 6.
- Selection
-
Higher education credits in science and engineering (maximum 240 credits)
- Fees
-
If you are not a citizen of a European Union (EU) or European Economic Area (EEA) country, or Switzerland, you are required to pay application and tuition fees.
- Application fee: SEK 900
- First tuition fee instalment: SEK 12,083
- Total tuition fee: SEK 12,083
- Application deadline
- 15 April 2024
- Application code
- UU-11042
Admitted or on the waiting list?
- Registration period
- 26 July 2024–9 September 2024
- Information on registration
About the course
The sustainability of information technology is often not visible in our everyday use of online services and devices. Firmly outside of our view are the energy and emissions that power data centres for video streaming, the rare earth mineral extraction and global supply chains that bring us our digital devices, and the labour needed to package and deliver the stuff we order online.
This course grapples with the environmental and social impacts of information technology. You will engage with critical literature on sustainability from a number of academic disciplines and will examine case studies of how IT contributes to (un-)sustainability. As a part of this, you will gain an overview of IT and sustainability as a new field of research, as well as learn about the means to develop IT for sustainability. As a core feature of the course, you will be expected to critically reflect on your own past and current project work, and identify how it might be improved in order to make sustainability a core design principle.
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