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70 403 Rethinking Development and Sustainable Futures

Full course name in English: 
Rethinking Development and Sustainable Futures
Studiepoeng: 
6
Emnekode: 
70 403
Studienivå: 
Syklus 2
Undervisningssemester: 
2024 Vår
Eksamenssemester: 
2024 Vår
Undervisningsspråk: 
Engelsk
År: 
2024
Maksimum antall studenter: 
16
Emneansvarlig
Anders Ese
Forkunnskapskrav

Passed foundation level courses (BA-level) at AHO or equivalent, 180 ECTS. Open to all study programs.

Om emnet

 “Rethinking Development and Sustainable Futures” is a course that takes a critical stance by scrutinizing how the fundamental concepts of “Development” and “Sustainability” are understood.

 

With growing concerns of climate change, loss of ecosystems, forced migration, urbanisation, and increasing social and economic disparities, these are concepts of global importance to the fields of design, architecture, urbanism, and landscape architecture. These concepts are also often partially interrelated, sometimes conflicting, and exposed to sectoral or profession-based interpretations. In this course, we will be stepping outside our “defined” professions to critically rethink the future of both development and sustainability through interdisciplinary readings, discussions, and writing. The goal is to reveal and deliberate what these profession-based conceptions and discourses typically hold and what they try to sustain. The course will also explore if there are other alternatives to established discourses that could be engaged with, promoted, and acted upon.

 

Informed by these dialogues, students will produce articles or essays based on their reading, on a topic of interest. They will also be tasked with critiquing each other's texts as a part of the production.

 

Læringsutbytte

Knowledge:

  • improved their knowledge about "Development" and "Sustainable Design".
  • knowledge about and experience in critical readings of texts.

Skills:

  • developed their skills to write their own texts.

developed their skills to describe and discuss their own and others´ texts in an academic seminar setting.

General competence:

developed a critical and reflective stance towards society, trends, development and design.

Praktisk organisering og arbeidsmåter

The content of the course spans from practical work with texts to lectures, discussions, student presentations, and the compilation of a reader. Typically, students are expected to deliver two reviews each of two books or other relevant sources; one from the reading list and one found through one's own explorative research. However, some modifications might be made to accommodate the needs identified in the group.

Pensum

The cuririculum is developed as part of the course's own seminar process

Link to course literature registered in Leganto

VurderingsformGrupperingKarakterskalaKommentar
Vurderingsmappe-Bestått / ikke bestått The students will be assessed on the following components:
-Taking part in class discussions
-Peer student assessment
-Student presentations
-A final delivery of 2 book reviews
Vurderinger:
Vurderingsform:Vurderingsmappe
Gruppering:-
Karakterskala:Bestått / ikke bestått
Kommentar: The students will be assessed on the following components:
-Taking part in class discussions
-Peer student assessment
-Student presentations
-A final delivery of 2 book reviews
AktivitetKommentar
Oppmøte Precence and active participation in class is expected, as well as involvement in the production of the final delivery.
Forventet arbeidsinnsats:
Aktivitet:Oppmøte
Kommentar: Precence and active participation in class is expected, as well as involvement in the production of the final delivery.