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FAK3019 Urban Ecology - As Science, Culture and Power 4.0 credits

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Headings with content from the Course syllabus FAK3019 (Spring 2013–) are denoted with an asterisk ( )

Content and learning outcomes

Course contents

The course consists of lectures and discussion seminars. In addition, the students will listen to a number of guest lecturers that are taking part of a simultaneous book workshop.

Intended learning outcomes

This PhD course provides participants with an overview of, and engagement with, various theoretical perspectives, debates and research practices that have energized the discussions around urban ecology, urban ecosystems, and urban sustainability during the last 10-15 years.

The course thus aims to provide participants with a familiarity of an extensive and varied literature. But also intellectual capacity to critically unpack the politics of urban ecology, and the abilities and disabilities to create more democratic and sustainable forms of urbanization.

Literature and preparations

Specific prerequisites

For PhD students in the fields of: Cultural Geography, Political Ecology

Environmental History, Urban Ecology and Systems Ecology, Urban Planning, Urban Design

Recommended prerequisites

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Equipment

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Literature

List of litterature will be announced a few weeks before the course starts.

Examination and completion

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

Grading scale

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Examination

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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.

Other requirements for final grade

Participation in lectures and seminars. Essay.

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

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

Main field of study

This course does not belong to any Main field of study.

Education cycle

Third cycle

Add-on studies

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Contact

Nina Wormbs, nina@kth.se, 08 790 85 83

Postgraduate course

Postgraduate courses at ABE/History of Science, Technology and Environment