Entry requirements

Students should have completed at least 180 credits within the Psychology Programme.

Learning outcomes

The purpose of the course is to provide knowledge about the psychological and social effects of the environment and environmental change and how to create environments to promote effectiveness and well-being.

After completing the course the student should be able to:

- account for the background to the emergence of environmental psychology,

- account for the general research paradigms within people and environment,

- account for the psychological and social effects of a person's work-, living-, and leisure environment,

- account for the possibilities of promoting health and well-being through interventions in the everyday environment,

- plan and carry out a smaller environmental assessment.

Content

During this course, theories and research within environmental psychology and related areas of occupational and organisational psychology are presented. The course focuses primarily on everyday environments of people (e.g., work-, living-, and leisure environments) and thereby provides insight into psychophysiological, psychological, and social effects of the environment. Research focusing on models of triggering as well as buffering mechanisms is presented. Through individual project work the students are provided with knowledge about different methods of analysing environmental factors.

Instruction

Teaching consists of lectures. Supervision is provided in conjunction with individual project work.

Assessment

The course is examined by quizzes in conjunction with lectures, individual written work and group project work. Grades are pass/fail.

Other regulations

Instructions are stated on the syllabus or schedule or other information prior to the start of the course or course section. Students who do not meet the requirements for course completion are normally given the opportunity to make them up the following semester.