Entry requirements

A Bachelor's degree (Swedish Kandidatexamen) in humanities, earth sciences or social sciences, or equivalent, from an internationally recognised university. Proficiency in English equivalent to the Swedish upper secondary course English 6.

Learning outcomes

After passing the course, students should be able to:

• Describe freshwater access, management and usage, including infrastructure and cultural factors, as well as relevant environmental conditions in the eastern Mediterranean through time and space;
• Critically assess how climate change and societal change impact freshwater availability, management, accessibility and usage in time and space;
• Formulate and communicate independent reflections on how freshwater availability and human water management and usage is shaped by natural and cultural factors.

Content

The course treats the interaction between access to freshwater, management, usage, and climate over long periods of time in the eastern Mediterranean through case studies in Athens and on the Peloponnese. As such it focuses on water access and climate change from the deep past to the future, with the aim to provide the students with insights into how these factors affect humans and societies

Instruction

The teaching consists of lectures and seminars as well as excursions with written and oral presentation tasks. The course will be taught in English.

Active participation seminars and excursions are compulsory. The excursions are physically demanding in that they include visits during long work days at places with uneven terrain without pavement or other adaptations.

Assessment

Examination takes place continuously through active participation in seminars and excursions, oral presentations and a written exam.

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.