EPN-V2

UTVB2500 Veivalg for bærekraftig utvikling Emneplan

Engelsk emnenavn
Choices of Sustainability Transitions
Studieprogram
Bachelorstudium i utviklingsstudier
Omfang
10.0 stp.
Studieår
2025/2026
Emnehistorikk

Innledning

  • Ledelse og veiledning i barnehagen som understøtter arbeidet med natur, helse og bevegelse
  • Yrkesetikk knyttet til arbeidet med natur, helse og bevegelse
  • Aktuelle offentlige styringsdokumenter
  • Mangfold i naturen; sammenheng og variasjon av biotoper og nøkkelarter
  • Fysiske fenomener og eksperimentell lek
  • Barns kroppslige lek og bevegelsesutvikling
  • Utemiljøer som stimulerer barn til bevegelse, nysgjerrighet og undring
  • Friluftsliv i et flerkulturelt og historisk perspektiv
  • Presentasjons-, formidlings- og dokumentasjonsmåter innen natur, helse og bevegelse

Anbefalte forkunnskaper

The course is open to students who have completed at least a one-year introductory course in Development Studies at either OsloMet, or equivalent courses at other universities/university colleges in Norway or abroad

Læringsutbytte

On successful completion of the course, the student has acquired the following learning outcomes classified as knowledge, skills and general competencies.

Knowledge The student can

  • identify different dimensions and interpretations of the terms «sustainability», «sustainable development», «the Anthropocene» and "the Capitalocene";
  • discuss explanations of the present situation of "unsustainable development", and its historical background;
  • identify the range of approaches and history behind sustainability transitions, such as doughnut economics, ecomodernism/green growth, degrowth, and the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Skills The student can

  • reflect critically on the main strengths and weaknesses of frameworks for sustainability transitions in the context of countries both in the Global North and South, as well as in the relation between the North and South;
  • identify political and economic impediments to sustainability transitions in the contemporary world.

General competenciesThe student

  • has obtained a basic competence to critically examine, discuss and take part in democratic decision making and action regarding choices of sustainability transitions;
  • has obtained a basic competence to identify "greenwashing", "green colonialism" and other types of unjustifiable claims of sustainability transition.

Innhold

This course offers basic knowledge about sustainable and unsustainable development and the range of framework for sustainability transitions. Emphasis is put on the relationship between rich and poor countries.

The course will highlight the various uses of the term sustainability, sustainable/unsustainable development, the Anthropocene and the Capitalocene. Students will learn about the problems and challenges that these concepts address, and the main historical trajectories of global development that have brought us to the present situation. A main objective of the course is to introduce the students to insights and tools to critically discuss the broad range of choices about sustainability transitions.

Arbeids- og undervisningsformer

Det benyttes ekstern og intern sensor.

Arbeidskrav og obligatoriske aktiviteter

Emnet overlapper med FKH1002.

Emnet overlapper med 10 stp mot FKH1000.

Emnet overlapper 15 stp mot MLEST1200.

Vurdering og eksamen

Godkjent av rektor 1. juni 2011

Godkjent av studieutvalget ved fakultetet 11. mai 2017

Siste revisjon godkjent av prodekan for studier 31. januar 2020

Emneplanen gjelder fra høstsemester 2020

Hjelpemidler ved eksamen

All aids are permitted, as long as the rules for source referencing are complied with.

Vurderingsuttrykk

A graded scale from A to E for passed and F for not passed will be used.

Sensorordning

The exam will be jointly marked by an internal and an external examiner. The external examiner will read a selection of the exam papers and collaborate with the internal examiner in a way that benefits all the students.