MV214A Environmental Politics and Citizenship 7,5 credits or

MV102B Environmental Science: Level 1 30 credits or equivalent.

The aim of the course is to provide the student with a basic knowledge of how EU’s and international environmental law is structured and how they are based on international collaborations and negotiations, and how these will be established and built up. In addition, the course aims to provide basic knowledge of the links between international environmental law, gender, nature's rights and human rights.

The course focuses on the basics of international and the EU’s environmental law, the international legal system and how international collaborations are created and conducted, as well as links between international environmental law, gender, nature's rights and human rights. In addition, the relationship between the international legal system and the EU’s legal system is dealt with. ¨

The course is based on knowledge about the emergence of environmental movements and environmental policy and the EU’s legal system.

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

1. account for how the international legal system works and how it relates to the EU’s legal system.

2. give an account of basic knowledge of EU’s and international environmental law rules and are constructed

3. account for the basics of international collaborations and negotiations, and how these will be established and built up

4. describe and elaborate on how international environmental law, gender, nature's rights and human rights are interconnected.

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

5. identify and review how the law is translated into legal practice and analyse and formulate legal solutions for concrete cases involving environmental problems from an environmental law perspective

6. identify, analyse and demonstrate how different actors in politics, economics and production influence the practice of international environmental law

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

7. assess information relevance for a concrete environmental problem from an environmental law perspective

8. evaluate the relevance of using different perspectives e.g. nature's rights, gender and human rights in the solutions to international environmental problems

9. identify their own need for further knowledge and be able to develop their competence in compiling the current research position within the selected area of specialisation in environmental science

The course learning activities are based on lectures, seminars, own work and work in groups. In addition to the scheduled teaching time, students are expected to work independently and in groups with information retrieval and knowledge acquisition.

Oral examination (6 credits) (learning outcomes 1-6) (grading scale UG)

Individually written assignment (1,5 credits) (learning outcomes 5-9) (grading scale A-E, U)

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

International legal provisions in the environmental field, as well as related areas such as Trade, international law etc., provided by course Coordinator in the form of links or documents (600 s).

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 200 pages).

Other texts, e.g. case studies, are provided by course Coordinator in the form of links or documents.

The University provides students participating in or upon completion of a course with the opportunity to relay their experiences of and opinions on the course through a course evaluation which is administered by the University. The University compiles and summarizes the course evaluations and informs students of the results and any decisions relating to measures made on the basis of the course evaluations. Results are made available to students (HF 1:14)

If a course is no longer offered or has undergone major changes, students are offered two re-take sessions based on the syllabus in force at registration during a period of one year from the date of the implementation of the changes.