EPN-V2

BIOB1050 Public Health and Health Management Course description

Course name in Norwegian
Folkehelse og helseforvaltning
Weight
5.0 ECTS
Year of study
2023/2024
Course history
Curriculum
SPRING 2024
Schedule
Programme description

  • Introduction

    No prerequisites.

  • Required preliminary courses

    Knowledge

    After completion of the course, the student has

    • comprehensive understanding of e-books from a cultural and historical perspective as well as their role in the current media landscape
    • advanced knowledge of the leading technologies and tools used for the production, reading and distribution of e-books
    • advanced knowledge of the Scandinavian e-book markets and distribution models, including challenges associated with economic and legal aspects
    • advanced knowledge of the implications of digitization of reading as a cognitive process, phenomenological experience, and social practice

    Skills attainment

    After completion of the course, the student

    • critically reflect on how affordances of reading devices may affect the reading of different types of texts for different purposes
    • assess the value and potential of distribution models of e-books for various types of libraries
    • identify and formulate research questions pertaining to e-books and address them through independent analysis
    • identify and use insights from relevant professional and research literature on e-books

  • Learning outcomes

    Teaching is conducted in the form of lectures, seminars, group assignments, project work, and exercises.

  • Teaching and learning methods

    No course requirements.

  • Course requirements

    The assessment has two parts: a project work (15-20 pages) made in groups with 2-3 students and an individual 3-day home examination (7-10 pages), written either in English or in Norwegian.

    The two parts get separate marks. The project work counts for 50 percent and the home examination counts for 50 percent of the total and final mark. The student must pass both parts to pass the course.

    Students who have failed a regular examination are entitled to sit a new examination in the part(s) they have failed. If the project work fail, the whole group need to sit the new examination.

  • Assessment

    All support material permitted.

  • Permitted exam materials and equipment

    Letter grading A-F.

  • Grading scale

    An internal and an external examiner make the assessment.

  • Examiners

    Tor Arne Dahl

  • Overlapping courses

    • psychology and phenomenology of reading
    • e-books as part of book markets and literary fields
    • e-books as material, technological, and cultural artefacts
    • e-books in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish libraries and markets
    • copyright and licensing