Environmental Ethnography
Course, Bachelor's level, 5KA511
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Autumn 2025 Autumn 2025, Uppsala, 50%, On-campus, English
- Location
- Uppsala
- Pace of study
- 50%
- Teaching form
- On-campus
- Instructional time
- Daytime
- Study period
- 10 November 2025–18 January 2026
- Language of instruction
- English
- Selection
-
Final school grades (60%) - Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test (40%)
- 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.
- First tuition fee instalment: SEK 11,250
- Total tuition fee: SEK 11,250
- Application deadline
- 15 April 2025
- Application code
- UU-52000
Admitted or on the waiting list?
- Registration period
- 6 October 2025–2 November 2025
- Information on registration from the department
Autumn 2025 Autumn 2025, Uppsala, 50%, On-campus, English For exchange students
- Location
- Uppsala
- Pace of study
- 50%
- Teaching form
- On-campus
- Instructional time
- Daytime
- Study period
- 10 November 2025–18 January 2026
- Language of instruction
- English
Admitted or on the waiting list?
- Registration period
- 6 October 2025–2 November 2025
- Information on registration from the department
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Autumn 2026 Autumn 2026, Uppsala, 50%, On-campus, English
- Location
- Uppsala
- Pace of study
- 50%
- Teaching form
- On-campus
- Instructional time
- Daytime
- Study period
- 4 November 2026–17 January 2027
- Language of instruction
- English
- Entry requirements
-
General entry requirements
- Selection
-
Final school grades (60%) - Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test (40%)
- 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.
- First tuition fee instalment: SEK 12,375
- Total tuition fee: SEK 12,375
- Application deadline
- 15 April 2026
- Application code
- UU-52000
Admitted or on the waiting list?
- Registration period
- 7 October 2026–28 October 2026
- Information on registration from the department
Autumn 2026 Autumn 2026, Uppsala, 50%, On-campus, English For exchange students
- Location
- Uppsala
- Pace of study
- 50%
- Teaching form
- On-campus
- Instructional time
- Daytime
- Study period
- 4 November 2026–17 January 2027
- Language of instruction
- English
- Entry requirements
-
General entry requirements
Admitted or on the waiting list?
- Registration period
- 7 October 2026–28 October 2026
- Information on registration from the department
About the course
The current era - often called the Anthropocene - is characterised by pandemics, climate change and extreme weather events, environmental degradation, extinction of species and decrease in biodiversity. The boundaries between nature and culture are increasingly being called into question. This course investigates how contemporary environmental concerns have a long history and are the result of the interplay between culture, politics, economics, technology and ecology. Understanding and managing such complex problems, therefore, requires scientific knowledge about how ecosystems work. But it also demands knowledge about how cultural notions, social norms, economic values, and political interests shape people's relations to organic and non-organic nature.
The course explores fundamental issues about meaning, value and action in relations between societies and environments. It provides ethnographic perspectives on some of the environmental challenges facing human societies and ecosystems, how different people deal with them in different ways, and how the humanities and social sciences can critically engage with these challenges.