EDS348 Global Environmental Governance
Credits (ECTS):10
Course responsible:Guri Bang
Campus / Online:Taught campus Ås
Teaching language:Engelsk
Course frequency:Annually
Nominal workload:Total workload: 250 hrs. Lectures: 30 hrs. Group discussions, seminars and student presentations: 30 hrs. Excursion: 1 day. Self-study, assignments, preparation of presentations etc.: 185 hrs. Exam: 4hrs
Teaching and exam period:This course starts in Spring parallel. This course has teaching and evaluation in Spring parallel, .
About this course
Learning outcome
Knowledge goals:
- Acquire comprehensive knowledge of the design and practices of environmental politics and governance
- Gain deep insights into environmental policy processes at different levels of governance, including the role of different actors, interests, institutions, and ideas involved in such processes
- Develop capacity to analyze environmental policies by employing theories and methods for policy analysis
- Be familiar with key international environmental agreements, conventions, and protocols, and how they function and interact with national and transnational environmental governance initiatives.
Skills goals:
- Critically analyze and understand relevant institutions
- Critically evaluate environmental governance at the global, national, and local levels
- Actively participate and contribute to academic discussions about environmental governance
- Provide and receive constructive review on academic texts and presentations
- Give presentations on environmental governance topics
- Participate constructively in teamwork
General goals:
- Develop competency in critical thinking around environmental governance
- Reflection on own and other people's environmental attitudes, values, and norms
- Standard lectures will be combined with problem-based learning and group discussions. The course includes seminars where students are engaged in active learning through making a podcast (group work), learning how to write popular science texts - an op-ed/column (individual assignment), and giving presentations in groups. The course also includes an excursion where students meet environmental governance representatives and learn from their practices.
- Lectures, seminars, discussions in class, and group- and individual supervision
- Bachelor degree
- Background in basic social science theory
Combined assessment.
Portfolio assessment is part of the combined assessment. The portfolio assessment includes:
- Group work: Podcast (20%)
- Individual assignment: Op-ed (20%)
Written exam (4 hrs) 60%.
Exam in English only. Letter grades A-F
- An external examiner will oversee the quality of examinations and evaluate a selected number of the final written exams
- Group work with associated seminars. Excursion. Students are expected to attend a minimum of 60% of the classes offered by the course.
- None
- Lectures: 30 hrs. Group discussions, seminars, and student presentations: 30 hrs. Excursion: 1 day.
- M-IES
- Minimum requirements for entrance to Master level education in Norway (generell studiekompetanse)