Entry requirements

MV215A Introduction to Environmental Studies 7,5 credits or 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 or MV222A Urban Infrastructure, Ecology and Health 7,5 credits, MV223A Environmental Psychology and Methods in Environmental Psychology 7,5 credits, MV224A Science Methods: Data Collection and Analysis of Environmental Quality 7,5 credits and MV233E International Environmental Collaborations 7,5 credits or

MV102B Environmental Science: Level 1 30 credits, MV101A Environmental Law 15 credits and MV108C Environmental Science: Level 2 30 credits or the equivalent

Progression level in relation to degree requirements

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 contents

The purpose of this course is for the student to develop basic knowledge of environmental management systems and similar control systems for organizations as well as their relations with the natural environment.

The course contains the general fundamentals of environmental management systems and similar control systems for organizations as well as more advanced content within a few different variants of management systems. The course covers:

• environmental management's ecological, social and economic context and development
• driving forces linked to environmental management system
• control and management systems for managing the natural environment and resources
• working environment and OSH management systems
• environmental accounting, auditing and similar reporting from environmental management systems

Learning outcomes

Knowledge and understanding

After completion of the education, the student should be able to:

1. account for and use basic concepts linked to environmental management systems and work environment management systems as well as describe their construction and function and the development context of the systems

2. reproduce and use basic concepts and systems for risk assessment

3. account for and explain how an organization works based on an environmental management and work environmental management perspectives. This includes identifying and describing what it means to lead and coordinate processes in the environmental or resource management field in different types of organizations

4. account for and identify work environmental factors relevant to the environmental science profession

Competence and skills

After completion of the education, the student should be able to:

5. construct environmental and work environment management systems and identify driving forces linked to the systems

6. systematically identify, analyse and assess environmental problems, work environment problems and natural resource management problems related to organizations' activities

7. read and interpret environmental statements, and out of these, extract necessary information to formulate proposals for action and assess the sustainability of or climate work in the organization

Judgement and approach

After completion of the education, the student should be able to:

8. critically evaluate, at basic level, environmental management systems as phenomena and their ethical aspects

Learning activities

The course learning activities are based on lectures, seminars, case exercises, exercises, 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 and processing.

Assessment

Individually written exam (7,5 hp) ( all learning outcomes) ( grading scale UA)

To pass final grade for the entire course (7.5 hp) at least a grade of E is required.

Course literature

• Dransfield, R. (latest edition). Business Economics. Routledge, Milton Park.
• Mulvihill, P.R. & Ali, S.H. (latest edition). Environmental Management: Critical thinking and emerging practices. Routledge, Milton Park.

Supplementary scientific articles and other material will be provided electronically.

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