Sustainability in Practice
In this course the student will get a unique experience working practically and theoretically with sustainability and entrepreneurship, in an interdisciplinary team. To develop a more sustainable society is a complex task where we need to take into account the interplay between ecological, social, and economic conditions. Thus, there is a need to work interdisciplinary to address sustainable challenges both locally and globally.
This course will give an insight into sustainability issues from different perspectives. In addition, the student works with a local real life case in an interdisciplinary team with students from different faculties and disciplines. The team works with defining and understanding what the real problems related to a sustainability challenge are, and use tools of entrepreneurial action to propose creative solutions for sustainable development.
Knowledge:
After the course, the student should have:
- knowledge about different perspectives on sustainability.
- understanding of the complexity of sustainability challenges and be able to evaluate them in relation to different sustainability perspectives.
- knowledge of how entrepreneurial action can contribute to a more sustainable society.
- knowledge of communication and collaboration in multidisciplinary teams.
Skills:
After the course the student should
- be able to identify problem areas for sustainable development.
- have developed entrepreneurial mindsets that make them competent to see opportunities and act actively to solve sustainable challenges.
- be able to use their own professional background and experiences to address sustainable challenges in an interdisciplinary team.
- have developed collaborative and communicative skills in interdisciplinary teams.
General competences:
After the course, the student should be able to:
- act as a change agent to contribute to a more sustainable society.
- understand interdisciplinary issues and contribute their expertise in discussions in complex issues.
- collaborate with,and convey proposed solutions, to actors in the society that work with sustainability issues.
- understand how to use own professional competence to solve problems in interdisciplinary teams.
- reflect upon how a project process and a collaboration in an interdisciplinary team work.
Compulsory participation because of team work.
The course uses following teaching methods:
Project work in interdisciplinary team, case assignment from local problem owner, team exercises, reflection, dialogue, and lectures.
Students from different faculties and disciplines work in interdisciplinary teams with real-time cases to propose solutions for sustainability challenges in the society. The students get the case assignment from a local problem owner.
During the course, the students deliver two written assignments that will be collected into a portfolio for evaluation: 1) a project assignment from the teamwork 2) a reflection note about the team work process.
Portfolio with a project assignment from the team and a reflection note (A-F).
Compulsory participation, 80 % participation (Passed/Not passed, ).