Syllabus, valid from 2023-01-16
Syllabus, valid from 2023-01-16
Title
The Environmental and Strategical Work of Organizations
Swedish title
Organisationers miljö- och strategiarbete
Course code
MV241E
Credits
7.5 credits
Grading scale
UA / Excellent (A), Very Good (B), Good (C), Satisfactory (D), Pass (E) or Fail (U)
Language of instruction
English
Decision-making body
Faculty of Culture and Society
Syllabus approval date
2022-05-09
Syllabus valid from
2023-01-16
Level
Basic level
Entry requirements
MV211A Reading, Writing and Discussing Texts in Environmental Studies 7,5 credits, MV212A Environmental History, Human Ecology and Environmental Ethics 7,5 credits, MV213A Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Chemistry 7,5 credits, MV214A Environmental Politics and Citizenship 7,5 credits, MV221A Statistics and Environmental Communication 7,5 credits, MV222E Urban Infrastructure, Ecology and Health 7,5 credits and MV223A Environmental Psychology and Methods in Environmental Psychology 7,5 credits, MV224A Science Methods: Data Collection and Analysis of Environmental Quality 7,5 credits or
MV102B Environmental Science: Level 1 30 credits, MV101A Environmental Law 15 credits and MV133B Environmental Surveying 15 credits or equivalent
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Progression level
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The course is included in the main area Environmental Science at the 1-60 credit level. This course is included in the Bachelor programme Environmental Science.
Course objectives
The purpose of the course is for the student to develop understanding and knowledge of different types of organisations' environmental and strategical work in order to identify, based on knowledge of nature and society's processes and technical systems, the environmental problems organisations need to take into account in order to achieve sustainable ecological, social, cultural and economic development.
Course contents
The course introduces the student to organisations' environmental and strategical work by, among other things, by including:
• Basic Business Administration
• Project Management
• Governance models
• General Driving Forces for Organisations in the Environmental Field
• Environmental Strategies
• Climate Strategies with Focus on Climate Adaptation in an Urban Setting
• Sustainability Analysis
Learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding
After completion of the education, the student should be able to:
1. account for the relationship between business enterprise and sustainable development’s ecological, social, cultural and economic aspects
2. identify and account for different driving forces in the environmental field and how they affect organisations
Competence and skills
After completion of the education, the student should be able to:
3. to seek to acquire and assess knowledge about the organisation's environmental and strategical work, and to reflexive and critically use the acquired information
4. analyse an organisation's relationship with the environment and formulate proposals how it can change in the direction of a more sustainable business
5. conduct a sustainability analysis for an organisation based on scientific knowledge of the nature and societal processes of the environment
6. produce written reports, which meet the requirements for scientific formalities and good language treatment
Judgement and approach
After completion of the education, the student should be able to:
7. reflect on and critically relate to the research, quality and relevance of both their own work and other environmental science research on sustainable societal development and the ethical aspects
8. identify their own need for further knowledge and ability to develop their skills in identifying, analysing and assessing environmental problems from an organisational perspective
9. reflect independently about their own work and take a stand on the results of this and reflect independently about the development of the knowledge and take responsibility for the use of the results of this knowledge
Learning activities
The course learning activities are based on lectures, seminars, individual work and work in groups. In addition to the scheduled teaching time, the student is expected to work independently and in a group with information retrieval and knowledge acquisition.
Assessment
Individually written exam (3,5 hp) (all learning outcomes) (grading scale A-E, U)
Sustainability Analysis Project: Planning, implementation and reporting (2 hp) (all learning outcomes) (grading scale A-E, U)
Organizations Climate and Environmental Strategies Project: Planning, implementation and reporting (2 hp) (all learning outcomes) (UG)
For the final grade pass on the whole course (7.5 hp), all examinations have to be passed with at least an E or G. The final grade of the course is assessed with a weighted average grade of Individually written exam and Sustainability Analysis Project: Planning, implementation and reporting (grading scale A-E, U).
Course literature
- Dransfield, R. (2013). Business Economics. Ed 1st. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-203-78386-3
- Haigh, N. & Griffiths, A. (2009). The natural environment as a primary stakeholder: the case of the climate change. Business Strategy and the Environment, 18: 347-359.
- Loorbach, D., van Bakel, C.J., Whiteman, G. & Rothmanis, J. (2010). Business strategies for transitions towards sustainable systems. Business Strategy and the Environment, 19: 133-146.
- Mulvihill, P.R. & Ali, S.H. (2017). Environmental Management: Critical thinking and emerging practices. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-89996-4.
Scientific literature, articles and other media forms are provided by Course Coordinator in the form of links, files, distributed as hard copy or borrowed from libraries (equivalent to max 500 pages).
Course evaluation
Malmö University provides students who participate in, or who have completed a course, with the opportunity to express their opinions and describe their experiences of the course by completing a course evaluation administered by the University. The University will compile and summarise the results of course evaluations. The University will also inform participants of the results and any decisions relating to measures taken in response to the course evaluations. The results will be made available to the students (HF 1:14).
Interim rules
If a course is no longer offered, or has undergone significant changes, the students must be offered two opportunities for re-examination based on the syllabus that applied at the time of registration, for a period of one year after the changes have been implemented
Additional information
If a student has a Learning support decision, the examiner has the right to provide the student with an adapted test, or to allow the student to take the exam in a different format.
The syllabus is a translation of a Swedish source text