Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Students completing the module acquire the following:  

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• Knowledge of the context dependency of urban, energy and environmental problems
• Knowledge of links between technological development and theories for analysis of planning and decision-making processes
• Knowledge of how to apply insights from socio-technical theory in agency, better policy designs, and sustainability transition

Skills

• Can use the presented concepts and methods in a socio-technical approach in relation to analysis of real life cases of environment, energy and urban planning and policy creation/development
• Can use and develop socio-technical theoretical approaches, concepts and methods for the analysis of specific problems at an advanced level
• Can propose interventions based on socio-technical knowledge, and communicate knowledge derived from socio-technical theoretical approaches to both specialists and non-specialists

Competences

• Can critically and independently use and develop socio-technical approaches, concepts and methods of analysis in problem-based project work
• Can understand and act upon complex problems in planning and technology, based upon socio-technical analysis and informed delimitation
• Can reflect upon own practise with a starting point in socio-technical knowledge, and thereby continuously develop capacity for being a professional change agent

Type of instruction

Lectures, workshops, seminars, assignments, etc.

Exam

Exams