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 and MV223A Environmental Psychology and Methods in Environmental Psychology 7,5 credits, MV224A Science Methods: Data Collection and Analysis of Environmental Quality 7,5 credits or

MV102B Environmental Science: Level 1 30 credits, MV101A Environmental Law 15 credits and MV133B Environmental Surveying 15 credits or equivalent

The purpose of the course is for the student to develop understanding and knowledge of different types of organisations' environmental and strategical work in order to identify, based on knowledge of nature and society's processes and technical systems, the environmental problems organisations need to take into account in order to achieve sustainable ecological, social, cultural and economic development.

The course introduces the student to organisations' environmental and strategical work by, among other things, by including:

• Basic Business Administration

• Project Management

• Governance models

• General Driving Forces for Organisations in the Environmental Field

• Environmental Strategies

• Climate Strategies with Focus on Climate Adaptation in an Urban Setting

• Sustainability Analysis

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

1. account for the relationship between business enterprise and sustainable development’s ecological, social, cultural and economic aspects

2. identify and account for different driving forces in the environmental field and how they affect organisations

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

3. to seek to acquire and assess knowledge about the organisation's environmental and strategical work, and to reflexive and critically use the acquired information

4. analyse an organisation's relationship with the environment and formulate proposals how it can change in the direction of a more sustainable business

5. conduct a sustainability analysis for an organisation based on scientific knowledge of the nature and societal processes of the environment

6. produce written reports, which meet the requirements for scientific formalities and good language treatment

Judgement and approach

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

7. reflect on and critically relate to the research, quality and relevance of both their own work and other environmental science research on sustainable societal development and the ethical aspects

8. identify their own need for further knowledge and ability to develop their skills in identifying, analysing and assessing environmental problems from an organisational perspective

9. reflect independently about their own work and take a stand on the results of this and reflect independently about the development of the knowledge and take responsibility for the use of the results of this knowledge

The course learning activities are based on lectures, seminars, 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.

Individually written exam (3,5 hp) (all learning outcomes) (grading scale A-E, U)

Sustainability Analysis Project: Planning, implementation and reporting (2 hp) (all learning outcomes) (grading scale A-E, U)

Organizations Climate and Environmental Strategies Project: Planning, implementation and reporting (2 hp) (all learning outcomes) (UG)

For the final grade pass on the whole course (7.5 hp), all examinations have to be passed with at least an E or G. The final grade of the course is assessed with a weighted average grade of Individually written exam and Sustainability Analysis Project: Planning, implementation and reporting (grading scale A-E, U).

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 500 pages).

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.