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DM2720 Sustainable Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Practice 7.5 credits

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Application

For course offering

Spring 2025 Start 14 Jan 2025 programme students

Application code

60289

Headings with content from the Course syllabus DM2720 (Spring 2020–) are denoted with an asterisk ( )

Content and learning outcomes

Course contents

  • Sustainable human computer interaction (S-HCI)
  • Sustainable Interaction Design
  • ICT for sustainable development (ICT4S)
  • Sustainable Media production
  • Service Design
  • Life-cycle analysis (LCA)
  • Systems thinking (and modelling)
  • Environmental psychology
  • How one communicates sustainability

Intended learning outcomes

After passing the course, students should be able to:

  • orient themselves among the concrete analytical tools and theories that the industry and other organisations request from the sustainable ICT/Media engineer.
  • explain at a general level how one can apply selected tools in the industry and other organisations
  • describe how data and media technology related organisations work with sustainability issues today
  • critically value/evaluate projects in terms of ecological, social and economic sustainability
  • relate this practical knowledge to the knowledge and research frontier within ICT and sustainability.

Literature and preparations

Specific prerequisites

Completed course in sustainable development equivalent to DM2573/AG1814/AG1815.

Recommended prerequisites

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Equipment

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Literature

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Examination and completion

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

Grading scale

A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Examination

  • INL1 - Assignment, 7.5 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

There is compulsory attendance in the course.

Opportunity to complete the requirements via supplementary examination

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Opportunity to raise an approved grade via renewed examination

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Examiner

Profile picture Elina Eriksson

Profile picture Daniel Pargman

Ethical approach

  • All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
  • In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
  • In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.

Further information

Course room in Canvas

Registered students find further information about the implementation of the course in the course room in Canvas. A link to the course room can be found under the tab Studies in the Personal menu at the start of the course.

Offered by

EECS/Human Centered Technology

Main field of study

Computer Science and Engineering

Education cycle

Second cycle

Add-on studies

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Contact

Elina Eriksson (elina@kth.se)

Supplementary information

In this course, the EECS code of honor applies, see:
http://www.kth.se/en/eecs/utbildning/hederskodex