The course is delivered through various modules, primarily in the form of seminars, focusing on subject-related and professional role-related issues connected to sustainable development.

Key topics include:

• The connection between physics and sustainable development.
• Strategies for complex problem solving.
• Sustainability aspects in the workplace.

After completing the course, the student should be able to:

• Demonstrate insight into the role of science and technology in society and the responsibility of individuals in using it for sustainable development, focusing on how a physicist's skills can contribute to a sustainable society.
• Demonstrate the ability to clearly present and discuss their conclusions, knowledge, and the arguments behind sustainability assessments in both oral and written forms, in dialogue with different groups.

3 seminars with mandatory attendance.

It is mandatory to answer the course start-up questionnaire in Canvas before the course starts. The answers from this questionnnaire will be used when creating student groups.

It is also expected that you have read the corresponding course material before you come to the seminars and it is mandatory to answer pre-reflection assignments before the seminars.

Relevant course material will be made available in Canvas before each seminar.

Students at KTH with a permanent disability can get support during studies from Funka:

Funka - compensatory support for students with disabilities

• SEM1 - Seminars, 1.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
• REF1 - Reflection, 0.5 credits, grading scale: P, 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.

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

REF1 - Reflection, 0.5 credits

This is the oral part of the group project where you present your project and your results at a seminar in front of your peers.

SEM1 - Seminars, 1.0 credits

There are three seminars in the course and it is mandatory to actively participate on all the three of them. To pass this examination, you need to:

• Answer a reflection quiz in Canvas before the first seminar.
• Pass the quizzes on core concepts (one related to each seminar
• Partipate actively on all the seminars
• Actively work on the group project in your wokring groups resulting in a short written report.

You may miss one of the seminars, but you must then make a longer task either by your own or in group. Based on the number of students missing a seminar, it is up to the responsible teacher of each seminar to decide how this task will be arranged.  If you miss two or all three seminars, you must redo the whole course next year.

• 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.

The course syllabus is valid from Fall 2024 according to the school principal's decision: S-2023-1678 Decision date: 2023-10-16