Course content

The course provides presentations of theories, discourse and practices related to understanding and managing safety and security challenges in a wide social and international context. The course will develop methodology for analysis of risks and threats to society by relating to relevant issues of social value and identity, and ethics, relating them also to safety standards and societal security perspectives.
The concepts of “threat”,"risk", "security" and that of “resilience” will be investigated in terms of the socially determined parameters developed in the course.

Learning outcome

The course will present basics of conceptualizing safety and security for the social sciences, science and ethics in the governing of risk, social values, ideology and the globalization of threats and the individual, social, cultural and political determinants of resilience and hardiness.

Learning methods and activities

Lectures, seminars, and group discussions.

Compulsory assignments

• Approved theme and literature of term paper; oral presentation

Recommended previous knowledge

PSY3001

Required previous knowledge

Bachelor's degree in Behavioral or Social Sciences.

Course materials

The obligatory literature involves approximately 300 pages, in English. The term paper is based on approximately 200 pages of individually chosen and relevant research literature.