Social Movements and Sustainability

The course aims to provide conceptual frameworks for studying and evaluating the impact that social movements for sustainability can have on the public agenda and decision-making.

The course is a seminar, although it starts with a few lectures on the history and various theoretical perspectives on social movements, introducing you to the relevant literature. Then, you choose a real-life case of a social movement for a sustainability issue and, adopting a theoretical perspective from the literature, present the analysis of the case in a seminar for class discussion. Depending on the number of enrolled students, seminars will be either by individuals or in small groups. The course ends with an individual term paper on one of the outstanding themes that emerge from class discussions.

Course literature

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

Prerequisites

At least 40 ECTS credits from the programme SAESS Masterprogram i Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science (also called LUMES).

Selection criteria

Seats are allocated according to: ECTS (HPAV): 100 %.

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 18,750
First payment: SEK 18,750

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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.