Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Students completing the module, acquire the following: 

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• Have thorough knowledge and understanding of institutional and social framework conditions, actors and challenges for sustainability management

Skills

• Can analyse and understand the handling of environmental problems on a societal level, including the integration of environmental policies, instruments and institutional aspects
• Can identify, analyse and assess project-relevant sustainability problems and consequences in an overall perspective
• Can formulate and analyse proposals for strategies within the environmental field which are based on an analysis of the technical and institutional conditions
• Can understand, use analytically and critically reflect on relevant quantitative and qualitative economic, sociological, environmental and/or engineering methods
• Can independently collect data in relation to relevant problems and assess the quality and reliability of the used data
• Can explain the general structure and methods of the project. Must also be able to reflect critically to sources and use accurate source referencing
• Can use project-relevant theories of contexts to create policy design, plans and action for improved sustainability

Competences

• Can structure and handle the complex challenges related to sustainability
• Can combine relevant theories, understandings, methods and analyses to form a synthesis towards the preparation of specific strategies and plans directed towards institutional and social framework conditions
• Can independently start and participate in interdisciplinary planning and engineering tasks.

Type of instruction

Problem-based project work in groups. 

Exam

Exams