Autumn 2019, evening, 25 %, Campus
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Start date: 2 September 2019
End date: 19 January 2020
Application Deadline: 15 April 2019
Enrolment Code: UU-19505 Application
Language of Instruction: English
Location: Uppsala
Selection: Final school grades (67 %) – Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test (33 %)
Entry Requirements: General entry requirements
Fees: If you are not a citizen of a European Union (EU) or European Economic Area (EEA) country, or Switzerland, you are required to pay application or tuition fees. Formal exchange students will be exempted from tuition fees, as well as the application fee. Read more about fees.
Application Fee: SEK 900
Tuition fee, first semester: SEK 16250
Tuition fee, total: SEK 16250
About the course
What are the challenges facing humanity today and in the future? How can we create and rediscover sustainable ways of living on this planet?
With accelerating trends such as climate change, water scarcity, energy depletion, social injustice, economic crisis, resource wars and other challenges, there is a growing need for sustainable alternatives. This course connects guest lectures that describe the severity of the challenges and workshops that discuss the possible sustainable responses and solutions to those challenges within the context of a specific global city or region. Students will have the opportunity to link global challenges to their own local and cultural backgrounds.
Autumn 2018
Welcome! Here you will find the latest information related to the course ‘Global Challenges and Sustainable Futures 2018’. Please keep checking this course portal for the latest updates, and if you have any question, contact the Course Coordinators, Laila Mendy and Sachiko Ishihara , at gcsf@cemus.uu.se.
Schedule & Course Info
- Syllabus
- Welcome Letter
- Schedule (Room changes!)
- Course Information Booklet
- Language and Writing Support
- Support Services for all students and Special Pedagogical Support
- Reference Style Guidelines – Harvard Anglia Ruskin University
Archive
Literature
Course Reader
Read before coming to class each week
- Sep 4: Introduction & Roll Call: What are (our) Sustainable Futures?
- Sep 11: The Systems of Global Challenges: Sustainable Development and Planetary Boundaries
- Sep 18: How we make sense of the world
- Sep 25: Workshop 1- Collapse of the Western Civilisation
- Sep 27*: Film screening- Economics (Student-led Session)
- Oct 2: Climate Change and the Future of Energy
- Oct 9: Eating the Planet- The structures of Foods
- Oct 11*: Quiz- Health (Student-led Session)
- Oct 16: Power, Inequality and Justice
- Oct 23: Workshop 2- After Our 30 Days
- Oct 30: War, Conflict, Peacebuilding and Sustainable Development
- Nov 6: Participation and Corruption in the Democratic Regime
- Nov 13: Workshop 3- Critical reflections and backcasting
- Nov 20: Technology-The “Solution” to all our global challenges?
- Nov 27: Biodiversity and the Degradation of the Natural World
- Dec 4: Missing Perspectives session
- Dec 11: Workshop 4- Back to the futures we want
- Dec 18: Final Session- Starting Our Sustainable Futures
Assignment Instructions
- Overview Assignment Deadline_dates updated
- Instructions – 30 Day Challenge (new deadline)
- Student-led Sessions (SLS)
- Back to the Futures We Want
- Make Up Tasks: Regular Seminars Sept 4 – Oct 9
- Make Up Tasks Oct 16 – Dec 18 (Nov 13, Dec 4, & Dec 18 added) (Nov 13, Dec 4, & Dec 18 added)
- Make Up Task for Workshop 1(Sep26)_ Collapse of the Western Civilization
Lecture Slides
Lecture slides will be posted here!
- Sep 4 Introduction – What are (our) sustainable futures?
- Sep 11 The Systems of Global Challenges: Sustainable Development and Planetary Boundaries with Hanna Wetterstrand
- Oct 16 : Power, Inequality and Justice with May-Britt Öhman
- Nov 13 AaronTuckey_Social-ecological transformations to liveable futures
- Nov 13- Workshop Backcasting
- Nov 20 – Technology with Josefin Wangel
- Nov 27 Biodiversity and the Natural World with Marie Kvarnström
- Dec 18 Our Sustainable Futures
