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Welcome

Center for Environment and Development Studies

QUESTIONS?

Today’s Schedule

10:15 – 12:00 Roll Call CEMUS Course Introductions (Introduction to Interdisciplinary Science & Worldviews & Visions)

Hambergsalen

12:00 – 13:15 Lunch & Poster Set-up 13:15 – 15:00 Poster Session

Hambergsalen &Foyer

15:15 – 17:00 Introduction to MSD Programme

Hambergsalen

18:30 – 20:30 CEMUS Open Lecture: The Role of the University and Students; and their Role in Society

Ihre-Salen, Engelska Parken

This Mornings Session

What is CEMUS? Course Intro: Introduction to Interdisciplinary Science Course Intro: Worldviews & Visions

Ken Robinson – Changing Education Paradigms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U

Center for Environment and Development Studies

Geocentrum, Villavägen 16 Telephone: 018 417 27 95

http://www.web.cemus.se/

Ihre-Salen, Engelska Parken Blåsenhus EBC CEMUS, Geocentrum Hambergsalen, Geocentrum

Center for Environment and Development Studies

Uppsala University TEKNAT

Faculty for Science and Technology

CSD Uppsala

Center for Sustainable Development

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

WHERE DOES CEMUS FIT WITHIN

THE UNIVERSITIES?

http://www.web.cemus.se/

Center for Environment and Development Studies

Working Group

University Teachers, researchers, local actors and former students

Students Course Coordinators CEMUS

Collegues & other resources within the organisaton

Director of Studies & Educational Coordintor

CEMUS’ EDUCATIONAL MODEL

Course Resource Person

Introduction to Interdisciplinary Science Worldviews & Visions Worldviews & Discourses

31 Aug – 17 Sept 18 Sept – Jan 2016

MSD @ CEMUS

Mar 2016 – Jun 2016

MSD @ CEMUS: FLOW OF INFO

Students IIS WV&V WV&D One Course Portal for all CEMUS courses Studentportalen studentportalen.uu.se

msd@csduppsala.uu.se

Jesse Schrage

jesse.schrage@csduppsala.uu.se

Ben Owen

ben.owen@csduppsala.uu.se

CEMUS Course Portal www.web.cemus.se/msd/

QUESTIONS?

INTRODUCTION TO INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE

5 credits (out of 120 Credits required for MSD) Pass/Fail Learning Outcomes

• Gather and compile relevant scientific literature in printed and digital form;
• Use scientific literature according to different disciplinary and interdisciplinary traditions

and work methods;

• Define and evaluate ethical questions with relevance for sustainable development;
• Analyze scientific concepts and their field of use;
• Scientifically communicate in spoken and written form, within and between different

scientific areas.

Examination

• Active participation – 75% attendance including Mandatory sessions
• An interdisciplinary group project
• 2 individual assignments (one poster and one written)

Get to know each other – Get to know Uppsala – Intro to SD

IIS: COURSE MATERIAL

Course Books There are three books that you will work with during the course:

• Öberg, Gunilla (2011) Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies: A Primer,

Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.

• Graff, Gerald & Birkenstein, Cathy (2010) They Say / I Say: The moves that

matter in academic writing, 2. ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.

• Jensen, Derrick (2003) Walking on Water, White River Junction, Vermont:

Chelsea Green Publishing Other Relevant Material

• Course Portal
• Studentportalen

IIS: SCHEDULE – FIRST WEEK

IIS: SCHEDULE – SECOND WEEK

IIS: SCHEDULE – THIRD WEEK

IIS: WORKLOAD

132 hours of which we have 64 hours scheduled leaving 68 hours for reading/viewing course materials, group work and examination Week 1 Week 2 Week 3

Individual Reflection Group Assignment

Poster Session

Walking on Water Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies They Say I say Specific articles related to lectures or workshops

QUESTIONS?

WORLDVIEWS & VISIONS

Introduction to Interdisciplinary Science Worldviews & Visions

End of first semester

Runs every FRIDAY and has a morning and afternoon session 5 Credits Pass/Fail

• Sustainability & You
• Ecocide
• COP21 & International

Negotiations

WORLDVIEWS & VISIONS

Learning Outcomes

• be able to understand different dimensions of Sustainable development on a local,

regional and global scale;

• be able to critically relate to and analyse the history and development of the concept of

Sustainable development;

• be able to critically relate to and value different definitions and indicators of Sustainable

development;

• be able to critically relate to and value different actors’

visions of a sustainable future and different strategies to attain a sustainable society.

Examination

• Active participation – 75% attendance including Mandatory sessions
• 4 individual assignments

Literature

• Course Reader – a collection of articles and book chapters ONLINE
• Higgins, Polly (2010), Eradicating Ecocide, London: Shephard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd,
• 2nd course book to be announced soon
• Additional articles and videos related to specific lectures and workshops will also be

posted online

An Information Pack with this info and a schedule will be available before the start of the course – 18th September!

WV&V: FLOW OF INFO

Students IIS WV&V One Course Portal for all CEMUS courses

msd@csduppsala.uu.se

Jesse Schrage

jesse.schrage@csduppsala.uu.se

Ben Owen

ben.owen@csduppsala.uu.se

Studentportalen studentportalen.uu.se CEMUS Course Portal www.web.cemus.se/msd/

QUESTIONS?

Today’s Schedule

10:15 – 12:00 Roll Call CEMUS Course Introductions (Introduction to Interdisciplinary Science & Worldviews & Visions)

Hambergsalen

12:00 – 13:15 Lunch & Poster Set-up 13:15 – 15:00 Poster Session

Hambergsalen & Foyer

15:15 – 17:00 Introduction to MSD Programme

Hambergsalen

18:30 – 20:30 CEMUS Open Lecture: The Role of the University and Students; and their Role in Society

Ihre-Salen, Engelska Parken