Considering Sustainability
Students must primarily be enrolled in Master in Social Analysis (part time), or apply for the course as a single course student/exchange student.
Single course students must meet the following entry requirements:
- Bachelor degree of 3 years' duration (180 ECTS).
- The applicant must have passed exams of at least 80 ECTS credits in social sciences. The grade requirement is C on a weighted average.
Upon successful completion of the course, students will have/be able to:
Knowledge
- knowledge in integrated sustainable societal planning, interdisciplinary synthetizing, co-creation and participation
- knowledge about some of the barriers, complex interdependencies, dilemmas and paradoxes that make ecological sustainability and the climate problem into the most wicked tasks ever experienced by mankind
- apply knowledge on new fields in integrated sustainable societal planning, interdisciplinary synthetizing, democratizing of knowledge, co-creation and participation, information gathering and case analysis
- critically reflect on how various forms of knowledge production shape the understanding of societal processes, and to see the connections between science, epistemology and policy development
Skills
- analyze challenges related to sustainability through prevailing theories, methods and interpretations found in social science and interdisciplinary societal planning
- work independently practical as well as theoretically with actual sustainability challenges
- independently apply relevant methods and innovative analytical tools in research and development
- analyze critically information sources and theoretical contributions, and apply them to formulate and structure professional reasoning in practical problem-solving and research
General competence
- analyze relevant professional and research related ethical issues, and to understand and work with them independently and in teams in an integrated sustainability perspective
- independently summarize and pass on comprehensive and complex issues, and understand various disciplines vocabulary and is able to apply them in interdisciplinary contexts
- communicate about professional issues, analysis and conclusions within the field, to specialists as well as to the general public
- kan anvende sine kunnskaper og ferdigheter på nye områder, bidra til nytenking der evnen til tverrfaglighet og helhetstenkning er essensiell
- apply their knowledge and skills to new fields, and contribute to innovative thinking in contexts where interdisciplinarity and holistic thinking is essential
The course is organized in six modules. The learning activities are organized as two session-based teaching. The sessions will take place on campus Bodø, digital or in a combination. The learning activities consist of lectures, seminars, discussion groups or practical work based on selected cases.
After the sessions follow a compulsory assignments. Each student participate in lectures, seminars and discussion groups. The compulsary assignment is written and submitted individually.
*The course is taught provided that a sufficient number of students register for it.
The following must be approved to pass the course:
Required coursework: Students complete two assessment tasks of 5 pages each. Assessed as approved/not approved.
Take home exam: Individual take home exam over one week (7 days). Maximum 10 pages (with standard font size 12 and line spacing 1,5). Graded A-F.
Overlap refers to a similarity between courses with the same content. Therefore, you will receive the following reduction in credits if you have taken the courses listed below:
SAM5012 - Considering Sustainability - 10 credits