Course - Interdisciplinary profile course: Sustainability - KULT2025
KULT2025 - Interdisciplinary profile course: Sustainability
About
Examination arrangement
Examination arrangement: Assignment
Grade: Passed / Not Passed
Evaluation | Weighting | Duration | Grade deviation | Examination aids |
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Assignment | 100/100 |
Course content
The course introduces three dimensions of sustainable transition (climate and environment, economy and social conditions), definitions of sustainability (for instance planetary boundaries and UNs sustainability goals) and challenges for realizing the goals. With a radically interdisciplinary approach the course introduces nuanced understandings and challenges to local, national and global work on sustainability goals. The course will bring up topics such as how different technologies and products affect environments, methods for quantifying environmental impact, social challenges such as poverty, equality, cultural diversity and democratic participation in sustainable transitions. In this way, the course is to increase the understanding of the complexity in and connections between techno-economic, ecological and socio-cultural challenges related to sustainability.
The first part of the semester will consist of an introduction to various perspectives on sustainability from fields such as technical-scientific research and the humanities/social sciences. The second part of the semester consists of seminars and group work where students will work with cases.
KULT2025 is the profile course in the interdisciplinary profile Sustainability. The profile consists of the profile course and three electives (a total of 30 ECTS). Interdisciplinary profiles give the students the opportunity to familiarize themselves with academic areas of specific relevance to the major societal challenges and for sustainable societal development. Learning methods and learning activities will provide interdisciplinary interaction competence. The course is also open for other students who wish to acquire this competence.
Learning outcome
Knowledge:
The candidate
- has knowledge about different definitions of sustainability, the connections between them, their challenges and paradoxes
- has knowledge about the connection between sustainable development, societal change and technological development/innovation
- has knowledge about written and oral dissemination of complex scientific information
- has knowledge about particular challenges the various sustainability goals raise to problem solving/innovation in interdisciplinary groups, in addition to the ability to conduct such collaborations
Skills:
The candidate
- can critically interpret information and results and do simple case studies
- is able to work on complex societal challenges
- can present analyses in an interesting, convincing and understandable way
- has interdisciplinary collaborative competence for contributing in an interdisciplinary process
General competence:
The candidate
- has a general understanding of the concept of sustainability
- has collaborative competence
Learning methods and activities
The Interdiscplinary profile course consists of a mix of knowledge based and experience based learning. Each profile course has its theme and knowledge elements linked to this. Development of collaborative skills, innovation competence and work on major societal challenges is experience based and based on project work in interdisciplinary groups.
The course consists of two parts: The first consists of lectures where students are introduced to different disciplinary perspectives. The other consists of seminars that focus on issues and cases, and/or project related work.
80% obligatory participation.
Compulsory assignments
- Two mandatory exercises
- 80 % attendance
Further on evaluation
The final work is a project, assignment etc. based on group work. It will be evaluated as pass or fail. The individual course will have work requirements that must be approved in order to sit the exam. These can be individual or collaborative work or presentations. If graded fail, the whole course must be taken again.
Recommended previous knowledge
A minimum of 60 ECTS on Bachelor’s level should be acquired before taking this course.
No
Version: 1
Credits:
7.5 SP
Study level: Intermediate course, level II
Term no.: 1
Teaching semester: SPRING 2024
Extraordinary deadline for course registration: 2023-12-01
Language of instruction: English, Norwegian
Location: Trondheim
- Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture
- Industrial Ecology
Department with academic responsibility
Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture
Examination
Examination arrangement: Assignment
- Term Status code Evaluation Weighting Examination aids Date Time Examination system Room *
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Spring
ORD
Assignment
100/100
Submission
2024-03-20
INSPERA
14:00 -
Room Building Number of candidates
- * The location (room) for a written examination is published 3 days before examination date. If more than one room is listed, you will find your room at Studentweb.
For more information regarding registration for examination and examination procedures, see "Innsida - Exams"