Entry requirements

Bachelor level

Main field

No main field of study

Course contents

The course aims to enable students to analyze the trends and developments that today's sports exhibit, in the form of, for example, facility development, the increased number of sporting events and the emerging sports tourism, and to be able to relate these to different perspectives on sustainable development.

The course covers the concept of sustainable development, its definitions and different ways of applying the concept and measuring sustainability factors. It also covers current development trends in sport, such as the great interest in arranging sporting events, the extensive construction of new arenas, the emerging sports tourism and the development of both club sports and commercial sports. In the next step, sustainable development is linked to the development of sport, and a central part of the course is to select and analyse parts of sports development using different sustainability factors.

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of the course the student should be able to:

1. explain the meaning and possible applications of the concept of sustainable development
2. explain current fields within sport and how these can be analysed from a sustainability perspective
3. explain guiding and regulatory documents that govern sport in relation to sustainable development
4. conduct and present a sustainability analysis of a sports phenomenon, for example a sports club, an event or an arena

Learning activities

The course contains varied work formats that can consist of lectures, guest lectures, seminars, group exercises, and self-study. The course is given online.

Assessment

All learning outcomes are examined in a Portfolio with Oral presentation, 7,5 credits.

For the grade Pass with Distinction on the course, the grade Pass with Distinction is required on the portfolio and the oral presentation.

The applicable grading criteria are announced by the course leader at the start of the course.

For all assessments, the basis must be such that individual performances can be distinguished.

Course literature

Svensson, Daniel; Backman, Erik; Hedenborg, Susanna & Sörlin, Sverker (eds.) (2023). Sport, Performance and Sustainability. London: Routledge. (153 p.).

Wilson, Brian & Millington, Brad (2020). Sport and the environment. Politics and preferred futures. Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited. (240 p.).

A reading list with research articles (approximately 300 pages) is provided at the beginning of the course.

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.