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36804-01 - Doctoral course: Research on Sustainable Development (Summer School) (3 CP)
| Semester | spring semester 2016 |
| 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 is an international course to foster interdisciplinary discourse on sustainability sciences among PhD students. It focuses on sustainability conceptions and their impacts on empirical research. The School provides a heterogeneous and vivid platform to intensively discuss the diversity of understandings of sustainability in different disciplines and their impacts on disciplinary research. Leading senior researchers in the field of sustainability will give inputs and comment on the participants research projects. For further information please consult: https://msd.unibas.ch/en/home/studies/phdschool.html |
| 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. |
| Bibliography | tba |
| Comments | For more details see: https://msd.unibas.ch/en/home/studies/phdschool.html |
| Admission requirements | The course is open to advanced 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 | Mandatory course application via Email an Marius.Christen@unibas.ch; for more details see: https://msd.unibas.ch/en/home/studies/phdschool.html Students of the University of Basel have to register the course on MonA (additional). |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
Doktorat Nachhaltigkeitsforschung: Empfehlungen (PhD subject: Sustainability Research) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Preliminary reading of central texts of the sustainability debate; preliminary writing of a text about the understanding of sustainability invested in one's research; presentation of parts of one’s research project on a poster and an oral presentation; active participation (please consult: https://msd.unibas.ch/en/home/studies/phdschool.html) |
| 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 |