Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science: Methods and Tools - from Knowledge to Action

This course provides you with opportunities to enhance your knowledge and skills in sustainability science by deepening your understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of participatory methods. The course is based on transformative student learning, in which you develop knowledge and skills in sustainability problem-solving processes through iterative activities such as idea generation, reflection, theorising, stakeholder interaction, and real-world experience to foster action for sustainability. Specifically, the course fuses the knowledge and skills you have gained from the first programme courses with new knowledge and competencies focused on purposeful interaction with different societal actors.

The transformative learning component is facilitated through working with societal actors to create critical awareness, enabling salient responses to sustainability problems to be devised and tested through group projects. As a key part of this learning process, you develop skills in sustainability leadership and systematic collaboration with actors within and outside academia, especially those relevant to devising meaningful responses to sustainability challenges.

Course literature

The course literature listed may be updated up to eight weeks before the course begins.

Prerequisites

To be admitted to the course, the student must have fulfilled course requirements of at least 7,5 higher education credits in the programme. A good command of spoken and written English, equivalent to English 6/B (advanced) proficiency in the Swedish secondary system, is required. Equivalent assessments will be made according to national guidelines.

Selection criteria

Admission guaranteed

Tuition fees for non-EU/EEA citizens

Citizens of countries outside:

• The European Union (EU)
• The European Economic Area (EEA) and
• Switzerland

are required to pay tuition fees. You pay an instalment of the tuition fee in advance of each
semester.

Tuition fees, payments and exemptions

Full programme/course tuition fee: SEK 16,875
First payment: SEK 16,875

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Note that you may also need to pay an application fee, or provide proof of exemption.

Application fee

No tuition fees for citizens of the EU, EEA and Switzerland

There are no tuition fees for citizens of the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland.