Valid for: 2023/24
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering, LTH
Decided by: PLED W
Date of Decision: 2023-03-27
Main field: Technology.
Compulsory for: F3
Language of instruction: The course will be given in Swedish
Processes for developing new technology must consider how they affect sustainable development (the environmental, social, and economic dimensions). This course shall, through an active and critical approach, contribute to a better understanding of what impacts the introduction and use of new technology may have on society and the environment and how societal requirements will affect technology development.
Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must
* Be able to briefly describe important environmental and
resource issues in relation to technology development; and in
relation to the demands of modern society, including the social and
economic aspects of sustainability.
* be able to critically analyse the concept of sustainable
development from general as well as actor perspectives
(eg.companies and organisations).
* be able to describe how work towards sustainability can be
conducted within companies, organisations and on a societal
level.
Competences and skills
For a passing grade the student must
* Be able to formulate and analyse a problem or an issue and
present it in a well-structured report with a correct language and
reference system; and be able to both orally and in written form
critically examine other reports.
Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must
* Be able to contribute to critical discussions around advantages and disadvantages of different sustainability strategies and the goal conflicts they can lead to.
The course addresses important areas of importance for
sustainable development, such as energy, climate, resource
conservation, waste treatment and chemicals, as well as social and
ethical aspects of technology development. The course covers both
societal strategies for sustainable development and how companies
can address sustainability issues in their work.
Each year a few relevant and topical issues will be chosen to be in
focus and critically discussed at seminars. The seminars take their
starting points in texts written with different perspectives and
the students prepare individually written contributions (in
English) in advance of these discussions.
A project, in the form of writing papers in small groups, is
introduced at the beginning of the course together with examples of
feasible fields for these essays. The groups formulate their own
detailed research questions and will during the working process get
supervision in a few separate steps. At the end of the course
there will be seminars in which the papers are presented and
critically discussed through a well-prepared opposition.
Grading scale: UG - (U,G) - (Fail, Pass)
Assessment: For a passing grade a passed written exam is needed as well as an approved written paper according to given criteria, attendance and active participation at a paper seminar including an approved written opposition, attendance and active participation at discussion seminars and approved written contributions for these seminars. These contributions shall be written in English.
The examiner, in consultation with Disability Support Services, may deviate from the regular form of examination in order to provide a permanently disabled student with a form of examination equivalent to that of a student without a disability.
Parts
Code: 0122. Name: Written Exam and Discussion Seminars.
Credits: 3. Grading scale: UG. Assessment: Written exam, active participation in discussion seminars, submission of dicussion material in English. Further information: The exam is scheduled in the middle of study period 4.
Code: 0222. Name: Paper.
Credits: 3. Grading scale: UG. Assessment: Paper writing in groups
Assumed prior knowledge: Minimum 120 higher education credits within the programme.
The number of participants is limited to: No
The course overlaps following course/s: FMIF15, FMIF30, FMIF55
Course administrator: Petra Malmquist, petra.malmquist@miljo.lth.se
Course coordinator: André Månberger, andre.manberger@miljo.lth.se
Course homepage: http://www.miljo.lth.se