Strategic Environmental Management, 7.5 credits

Main field of study

Course level

Advancement level

Course offered for

• Bachelor's Programme in Environment, Climate, and Sustainable Development
• Bachelor´s Programme in Environmental Science

Entry requirements

• Environmental Complexity in Policy and Practice, basic course, 7.5 credits.
• Environmental Assessment, Management, and Planning, basic course, 15 credits.
• Environmental Governance and Economics, basic course, 15 credits.

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• describe and analyse different strategies for organisational environmental work
• account for and use methods and tools for organisational environmental management
• evaluate the environmental work in different organisations, both from an environmental and an organisational perspective
• plan and carry out an environmental management project in a real organisation

Course content

The contents of the course comprise methods and tools for organisational environmental work. Important parts include measuring environmental performance, standardised environmental management systems and environmental strategies. This also includes organisational conditions for effective environmental management.

Teaching and working methods

This course utilises work in tutorial groups, lectures, seminars and projects. The students should also study independently.

Examination

The course is examined both through oral and written work, such as project report and individual assignments, and through assessment of active participation in projects and tutorial group work. Active participation in the project work presentations and the final review of the course is also required.

If special circumstances prevail, and if it is possible with consideration of the nature of the compulsory component, the examiner may decide to replace the compulsory component with another equivalent component.

If the LiU coordinator for students with disabilities has granted a student the right to an adapted examination for a written examination in an examination hall, the student has the right to it.

If the coordinator has recommended for the student an adapted examination or alternative form of examination, the examiner may grant this if the examiner assesses that it is possible, based on consideration of the course objectives.

An examiner may also decide that an adapted examination or alternative form of examination if the examiner assessed that special circumstances prevail, and the examiner assesses that it is possible while maintaining the objectives of the course.

Students failing an exam covering either the entire course or part of the course twice are entitled to have a new examiner appointed for the reexamination.

Students who have passed an examination may not retake it in order to improve their grades.

Grades

Other information

Planning and implementation of a course must take its starting point in the wording of the syllabus. The course evaluation included in each course must therefore take up the question how well the course agrees with the syllabus. 

The course is conducted in such a way that there are equal opportunities with regard to sex, transgender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion or other belief, disability, sexual orientation and age.

If special circumstances prevail, the vice-chancellor may in a special decision specify the preconditions for temporary deviations from this course syllabus, and delegate the right to take such decisions.

Department