Sustainable Development in the Global Context, 15 credits

Main field of study

Course level

Advancement level

Entry requirements

General entry requirements for undergraduate studies 
and 
English corresponding to the level of English in Swedish upper secondary education (Engelska 6/B)
(Exemption from Swedish)

Intended learning outcomes

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

• describe and analyse the various fields of sustainable development from the social, ecological and economic perspective.
• create and conduct a project on a sustainable development issue with the help of relevant scientific information.
• demonstrate analyses of environmental and resource preconditions for global relations. Relate these to a social, political, environmental, and economic framework on a global and local scale.
• critically analyse and discuss the impact of human use of resources in a historical and future perspective.

Course content

The awareness of environmental issues has, to a high degree, contributed to an increased attention towards global relationships during the last several years. This course focuses on the question of how global flows of resources, trade, materials and goods have developed, particularly during the post-war period, as well as on how the political and ideological debates on these issues have developed. Additionally, different theories concerning these changes are evaluated. This course is interdisciplinary; both social and natural sciences will be considered in the course, and through laboratory experiments, field excursions, lectures and seminars,  students gain a scientific understanding  of  global environmental problems.

Teaching and working methods

Lectures, seminars, laboratory exercises, field excursions. In addition to those, the students are expected to study on their own. Language of instruction: English

Examination

The course is examined through active participation in seminars, laboratory exercises an individually written essay, and oppostion on another essay. Detailed information can be found in the course's study guide.

If the LiU coordinator for students with disabilities has granted a student the right to an adapted examination for a written examination in an examination hall, the student has the right to it. If the coordinator has instead recommended for the student an adapted examination or alternative form of examination, the examiner may grant this if the examiner assesses that it is possible, based on consideration of the course objectives.

Students failing an exam covering either the entire course or part of the course twice are entitled to have a new examiner appointed for the reexamination.

Students who have passed an examination may not retake it in order to improve their grades.

Grades

Other information

Planning and implementation of a course must take its starting point in the wording of the syllabus. The course evaluation included in each course must therefore take up the question how well the course agrees with the syllabus. 

The course is carried out in such a way that both men´s and women´s experience and knowledge is made visible and developed.

Department