45 credits with progression within a main field of study

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 – Human, Environment, Society.

The course introduces Environmental Sociology and Environmental Sociological methods. The course covers connections between Environmental Sociology and other fields such as Environmental Politics, Environmental Psychology and Environmental ethics. Using relevant theories, concepts and methods, a study in Environmental Sociology is carried out.

Knowledge and understanding
After completion of the education, the student will be able to:
1. account for basic concepts, theories, and contexts in Environmental Sociology
2. use Environmental Sociological method
3. describe and analyse connections between Environmental Sociology to Environmental Politics, Citizenship, Environmental Psychology, Environmental History, Environmental Ethics, technical systems and natural systems.

Competence and skills
After completion of the education, the student will be able to:
4. plan, conduct, analyze and present an Environmental Sociological investigation based on Environmental Sociological theories
5. demonstrate proficiency in written and oral reporting, which meets the requirements of scientific formality and good quality language

Judgement and approach
After completion of the education, the student will be able to:
6. reflect on the quality and relevance of one's own work, also in relation to other environmental research, the quality and relevance of sustainable development and ethical aspects.
7. independently reflect about one's own work, consider this reflection in relation to one's own knowledge development, and take responsibility for the result of this process
8. identify own needs for additional knowledge and to develop skills in identifying, analyzing and assessing environmental problems

Course learning activities are based on lectures, seminars, independent work and work in groups. In addition to the scheduled teaching time, students are expected to work independently and in groups with information retrieval, gathering of empirical materials, use of methods and knowledge acquisition.

Individual written assignment (7 hp) (all learning goals) (grading scale A-E, U)
Oral presentation (0,5 hp) (learning goal 4, 5, 7) (UG)

For the final grade pass for the whole course (7.5 hp) all assessments parts must have at least a G or E grade. The entire course grade is based on the grade of the individual written assignment.

• Arnold, A. (2018). Climate Change and Storytelling: Narratives and Cultural Meaning in Environmental Communication. Springer International Publishing AG, New York.
• Clark, T., Foster, L., Sloan, L., & Bryman, A. (2021). Bryman's Social Research Methods. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Detraz, N. (2016). Gender and the Environment. Polity Press, Cambridge.
• Hannigan, J. (2022). Environmental Sociology. Routledge, Milton Park.
• Miller, G. & Spoolman, S. (2020). Living in the Environment. Cengage Learning Inc, Boston.

Articles and other material will be provided digitally.

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(HF1:14).

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.

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.