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36804-01 - Doctoral course: Sustainabiltiy Science (Summer School) (3 CP)

Semester spring semester 2014
Course frequency Irregular
Lecturers Paul Burger (paul.burger@unibas.ch)
Marius Christen (marius.christen@unibas.ch, Assessor)
Patricia Holm (patricia.holm@unibas.ch)
Frank Christian Krysiak (frank.krysiak@unibas.ch)
Content The PhD Summer School Sustainability is an international course to foster interdisciplinary discourse on sustainability science among PhD-students. This first Summer School focuses on sustainability conceptions and their impacts on the students' empirical research. It provides a heterogeneous platform to intensively discuss the diversity of understandings of sustainability in different disciplines and their impacts on disciplinary research. Leading researchers in the field of sustainability will give inputs and the participants will have the opportunity to get comments on their research projects from them.
Learning objectives The main aims of this course are
- to enhance the participants’ knowledge of different theoretical options on the sustainability science market;
- to critically reflect the invested understandings of sustainability in the participants’ research projects and
- to foster interdisciplinary discourse on sustainability science among PhD-students.
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Admission requirements The course is open to PhD-students from all national and international universities writing their PhD in different sustainability related disciplines. Preliminary registration is required. For details see "Anmeldung", the information will follow.
Course application Anmeldung via Email an Marius.Christen@unibas.ch.
Studierende der Unibas müssen über MonA zusätzlich belegen.
Course registration requiered tba
Language of instruction English
Use of digital media No specific media used

 

Interval Weekday Time Room

No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.

Modules Lehrveranstaltungen Doktorat an der Philosophisch-Historischen Fakultät (Doctorate Philosophy (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences))
Assessment format continuous assessment
Assessment details Preliminary reading of central texts of the sustainability debate.
Presentation of parts of one’s research project and/or comment on inputs from other presenters
Active participation
Assessment registration/deregistration Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required
Repeat examination no repeat examination
Scale Pass / Fail
Repeated registration as often as necessary
Responsible faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch
Offered by Fachbereich Nachhaltigkeitsforschung

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