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 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

The purpose of this course is for the student to develop basic knowledge of environmental management systems and similar control systems for organizations.

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

• modern environmental history linked to environmental management systems development

• driving forces linked to environmental management system

• working environment and OSH management systems

• environmental accounting and statement and similar reporting from environmental management systems

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 of and explain how an organization work based on an environmental management and work environmental management perspective including identifying and describing what it means to lead and coordinate processes in the environmental field in different types of organizations

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

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 and work environment 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 the organization

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

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.

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.

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.