Entry requirements

General entry requirements

Learning outcomes

On the completion of the course the student should be able to:

• from cross disciplinary perspective account for important local and global sustainability issues;
• describe and coompare different societal actors' strategies, roles, scope for action and limitations in the pursuit of a sustainable society;
• critically discuss the interplay between individual and actor actions and the structural/systemic conditions that shape social change;
• critically discuss their own role and personal responsibility in relation to both the causes of and solutions to sustainability challenges at local and global levels.

Content

The course gives a broad orientation to complex sustainability dilemmas on different levels. In a multidisciplinary series of lectures with invited guest lecturers, the most serious sustainability challenges of today are discussed, as well as the roles, strategies, scope of action and limitations of various actors to solve these problems.The course aims to provide an understanding of how these actors - such as governments, businesses, civil society and international organizations - contribute to social change and sustainable development. Concrete strategies for societal change, at a structural/societal level as well as from an individual perspective, are developed and discussed.

Instruction

The teaching consists of lectures, seminars and workshops. The lectures are given by guest lecturers from various academic disciplines and relevant areas of society. Ample opportunities are provided for active student participation and critical reflection.

Assessment

The student is examined through written preparation for (2 credits) and active participation in seminars and workshops (1.5 credits), and through written documentation (3.5 credits) and oral presentation (0.5 credits) of a project.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the University's disability coordinator.

Other regulations

Active participation is reassessed through a re-seminar. If a student after having been offered a re-seminar still does not meet the requirements to pass the active participation elements the examiner can choose reassessment by another method.

This course cannot be included in a degree together with course 1MV075, Global Sustainability - Actors and Strategies for Change.