Entry requirements

Bachelor's degree in Humanities or Social Sciences

Progression level in relation to degree requirements

No main field

Course contents

The purpose of the course is that the student develops a deeper understanding of how sport and outdoor recreation relates to the environment and to sustainable development. The course addresses environmental challenges that sport and outdoor recreation are facing, both in terms of their environmental impact but also how environmental change can affect sport and outdoor recreation. In addition, the course tackles the strive for increasing performance in sport and the logic of sportification, and its potential conflict with environmental considerations. Swedish and international research on sport, outdoor recreation and environment is discussed and analyzed.

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of the course the student should be able to: 1. Critically examine and problematize how different models for the management and organization of sport and outdoor recreation can affect, and be affected by, the environment. 2. Summarize and analyze the content in scientific and scholarly journals in relation to sport, outdoor recreation and environmental challenges. 3. Describe and analyze how and why the relation to the environment and sustainable development differ between different types and levels of sport and outdoor recreation.

Learning activities

The course is offered on distance, online via digital tools. The course contains varying forms of teaching, such as lectures, seminars, group discussions and individual study. The course builds on active participation and collective knowledge building with other students and teachers.

Assessment

The course is assessed through two examinations as follows: Assignment 1: Written Case Report, 2 hp. The exam assesses the learning outcome 1. Assignment 2: Paper, 5,5 hp. The exam assesses the learning outcomes 2 and 3. Parts of the course in which attendance is compulsory are announced by the teachers at the start of the course. The assessment criteria for this course are announced by the teachers in connection to the course start. For all assessments, individual contributions should be possible to identify.

Course literature

Beames, Simon, Mackie, Chris & Atencio, Matthew (red.) (2019). Adventure and society. Chamonix, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. 194 s. Book, Karin (2013). Place Marketing or Sustainable Development – or neither nor: Reflections on the Winter Olympics in Sochi 2014. Dingle, Greg & Mallen, Cheryl (red.) (2020). Sport and Environmental Sustainability: Research and Strategic Management. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. 288 s. I: Petersson, Bo & Vamling, Karina. (red.) (2013). The Sochi predicament: contexts, characteristics and challenges of the Olympic Winter Games in 2014. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Pub, s. 41-54. McCullough, Brian. P., Orr, Madeleine, & Kellison, Timothy (2020). Sport Ecology: Conceptualizing an Emerging Subdiscipline Within Sport Management. Journal of Sport Management, 34(6), 509-520 Svensson, Daniel (2018). Skiing through Time: Articulating a Landscape Heritage of Swedish Cross-Country Skiing. I: Strobl, Philipp and Podkalicka, Aneta (red.) Leisure Cultures and the Making of Modern Ski Resorts. Chamonix: Palgrave Macmillan, s. 93-115. Additional readings may be added to a limited extent.

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.