SUS2000 – Sustainability: Perspectives, Challenges and Solutions
Schedule, syllabus and examination date
Course content
The age of humans, the Anthropocene, is characterized by several interacting and profound global challenges around the climate, energy, the environment, growing inequality. ?These play out differently in different parts of the world, and require diverse solutions. There is an urgent need for rapid and radically just sustainable transformations.?
This course will broaden your understanding of the world and reality we are a part of. We will explore how issues related to sustainability can be studied from many different perspectives, and how various research fields can work together to define and explore transformation pathways. Through lectures, field visits, and extensive collaborative activities, this course will challenge you to explore your own knowledge and attitudes towards sustainability, and your capacity to influence transformations.???
Learning outcome
To define, interpret and integrate different theoretical perspectives on sustainability, and the outcomes of various case analyses??
To learn how to appreciate diverse kinds of knowledge and methodologies, and communicate across them?
To develop a systemic thinking approach to sustainability dilemmas?
To practice problem solving approaches from interdisciplinary perspectives, in a collaborative setting??
To communicate and present complex sustainability issues
Admission to the course
You must be a registered student at a bachelors programme at UiO, a student in a 5-year professional study programme or an exhange student on bachelor's level.??
This course is not open to single-course students or masters students.
Recommended previous knowledge
It is recommended that you have completed 60 ECTS of previous studies prior to enrolling in this course.
Teaching
The teaching combines lectures with group work and field trips.?
Attendance is mandatory, and active participation in seminars is both expected and encouraged. You must have an attendance of 80% to be eligible to take the exam.?
Access to teaching
A student who has completed compulsory instruction and coursework and has had these approved, is not entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework. A student who has been admitted to a course, but who has not completed compulsory instruction and coursework or had these approved, is entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework, depending on available capacity.
Examination
Sustainability fair presentation, poster, podcast, or video. You choose the format with your assigned group in the seminars. In addition to the group work, you must submit an individual written task based on the group work.?
This course has obligatory activities that must be approved before you can take the exam.
Obligatory activities:
1 reflection note??
Group work
A term paper or equivalent that is passed may not be resubmitted in revised form.
If you?withdraw from the exam?after the deadline, this will be counted as an examination attempt.
Language of examination
You may submit your response in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English.
Grading scale
Grades are awarded on a pass/fail scale. Read more about?the grading system.
Resit an examination
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- Special exam arrangements due to individual needs
- Withdrawal from an exam
- Illness at exams / postponed exams
- Explanation of grades and appeals
- Resitting an exam
- Cheating/attempted cheating
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