746A80 · 7.5 credits · Advanced level (A1N) · Miljövetenskap
Critical Perspectives on Sustainable Development
Active · next start HT 2026
100%
passed the latest regular sitting
DEL1 · 8 Oct 2025 · 21 students
87%
passed the regular sittings, all sittings over the last 5 years
DEL1 · 78 students
Unusually easy in 2025/26
100% passed the ordinary exam in 2025/26 (21 students), against 80% on average in earlier years (57 students).
Other module
DEL1 Active participation in seminars and workshops
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87% passed · 78 students
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Exam
EXAM Examination
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Ordinary exams
84% passed · 31 students
- 81%26
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Re-exams
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- Get B or A: 32% (31 students)
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Hand-in or lab
UPG1 Individual written assignment
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Main rounds
80% passed · 75 students
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- Get B or A: 60% (75 students)
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RED1 Presentation and opposition of individual written assignment
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RFL1 written reflection on specifi course literature
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Main rounds
87% passed · 77 students
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- 63%16
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About the course
Aim
After completion of the course, the student should on an advanced level be able to:
- describe the evolution of sustainable development as a concept, policy agenda and field of research.
- critically analyze and compare different scientific perspectives on sustainable development and their political implications.
- reflect upon the ethics and knowledge politics of science for sustainable development.
- integrate knowledge gained through reading, discussions, and cases, and express it orally and in writing.
- write academic texts where rules for citations and references are correctly applied.
Content
The course focuses on an analytical and critical foundation from which the students can approach sustainable development. Drawing on past and present developments in nature/society, the course exemplifies how any chosen event or situation is dependent on the interplay between natural and social processes. The students are introduced to a number of theories that can be used to describe and analyze the construction of knowledge and technology for sustainable development. These theories will be applied to an analysis of a case on sustainable development. The students also develop the academic skills of referencing, analysis, and critical evaluation.
Important dimensions that are discussed include the links between social interests, politics, knowledge and technology. The influence of social class, gender, culture and other social relations on science and technology is examined and also how science and technology can structure such relations. The course underlines the importance of understanding the role of expertise and the dynamics involved in working towards sustainable development, such as issues relating power asymmetries between high- and low-income countries.
- Examiner
- Juliana Porsani
- Main field of study
- Miljövetenskap