FAK3019 Urban Ecology - As Science, Culture and Power 4.0 credits
This course has been discontinued.
Last planned examination: Spring 2021
Decision to discontinue this course:
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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
Equipment
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
Examination
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
Opportunity to raise an approved grade via renewed examination
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.