Autumn 2017 weeks 35-02 (28 august – 14 january) – 50% – Campus
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Enrolment Code: UU-19510
Language of Instruction: English
Location: Uppsala
Selection: Higher education credits
Entry Requirements: 60 credits
Application Fee: SEK 900
Tuition fee, first semester: SEK 32500
Tuition fee, total: SEK 32500
About the course
Do you want do a sustainability project, reach others and change the world? Then this is a course for you!
The students carry out a local project in international and interdisciplinary groups that in one way or another aims to contribute to sustainable development. The students come up with a project idea that is shaped in lectures, workshops and seminars and is further developed through peer review and feedback sessions. When the project proposal has been accepted, the students run their project with the support of the course coordinators and CEMUS as a resource base. The project is ultimately presented in a project report, and in an outreach context at CEMUS Sustainability Festival at the end of each semester. The project should combine theoretical and practical skills with method knowledge – all of which are practiced throughout the course. Focus is put on critically discussing and presenting the project results in both writing and speech. While there are some individual assignments, the main focus is on group work and assignments.
Spring 2019
Welcome to the Sustainable Design course! The beginning of the semester is getting closer and below you will find a welcome letter with essential information about the course, a preliminary course schedule, course literature and course examination. As the course begins we will predominantly be using Studentportalen for communication.
Hope you are excited about the journey ahead! We are looking forward to meeting you all. Please drop us a line at sdesign@cemus.uu.se if you have any questions.
Cheers
Dani and Isabel
Schedule & Course Information
- Syllabus
- Sustainable Design – Examination Overview
- Sustainable Design 2019 – Schedule
- Sustainable Design – Literature Overview
- Sustainable Design – Welcome Letter
- General Grading Criteria
- How to Reference (Harvard System – Anglia Ruskin University)
- Language and Writing Support
- Support Services for all students and Special Pedagogical Support
Course Archives from previous years can be found here
Fall 2019
Welcome to the Sustainable Development – Project Management and Communication course for Fall 2019! Hope you are getting excited for our journey together this semester. We are looking forward to meeting you all! Please contact us at sdproject@cemus.uu.se if you have any questions. ‘
Cheers!
Katie and Isabel
Course Essentials
- Syllabus
- SDPMC Fall 2019 – Schedule
- SDPMC Fall 2019 – Welcome Letter.
- SDPMC Fall 2019 – Welcome Letter
- SDPMC Fall 2019 – Literature Overview and Course Reader
- SDPMC Fall 2019 – Examination Overview
- General Grading Criteria
- How to Reference (Harvard System – Anglia Ruskin University)
- Language and Writing Support
- Support Services for all students and Special Pedagogical Support
Spring 2019
Welcome to the Sustainable Development – Project Management and Communication course for Spring 2019! Hope you are getting excited for our journey together this semester. We are looking forward to meeting you all! Please contact us at sdproject@cemus.uu.se if you have any questions. ‘
Cheers!
Katie and Isabel
Course Essentials
- Syllabus
- SDPMC 2019 – Welcome Letter
- SDPMC 2019 – Literature Overview and Course Reader
- SDPMC 2019 – Examination overview
- SDPMC 2019 – Schedule
- General Grading Criteria
- How to Reference (Harvard System – Anglia Ruskin University)
- Language and Writing Support
- Support Services for all students and Special Pedagogical Support
Fall 2018
Welcome to the Sustainable Development – Project Management and Communication course for Fall 2018! Hope you are getting excited for our journey together this semester. We are looking forward to meeting you all! Please contact us at sdproject@cemus.uu.se if you have any questions. ‘
Cheers!
Katie and Isabel
Course Essentials
- Syllabus
- Welcome Letter SDPMC HT18
- SDPMC Course Information Fall 2018
- 181003 Schedule SDPMC Fall 2018
- General Grading Criteria
- How to Reference (Harvard System – Anglia Ruskin University)
- Language and Writing Support
- Support Services for all students and Special Pedagogical Support
Archive
Course information from previous years
You find more about past projects in the course here
Literature
- The Course Reader
- Stibbe et al (2014) The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy : Skills for a Changing World
- Holmes et al. (2011), The Common Cause Handbook, PIRC
- Lilliesköld and Eriksson (2009), Handbook for Small Projects, Liber
and one of the following:
- Chouinard (2016), Let My People Go Surfing, Penguin Books
- Gladwell (2011) Outliers, Little, Brown and Company
Individual Assignment Instructions
Group Project Instructions
- Collaborative Agreement
- Project Plan and Stakeholder Analysis
- Project Plan Feedback
- Project Pitch
- Project Short Film
Literature Seminar Preparation Tasks
- Literature Seminar I Preparation Task _ Challenges and Opportunities in Sustainable Development
- Literature Seminar II Preparation Task _ Ethics and Values in Projects
ALL SUBMISSIONS will be made at www.studentportalen.uu.se
Spring 2018
Welcome to the Sustainable Development – Project Management and Communication course for Spring 2018! Hope you are getting excited for our journey together this semester. We are looking forward to meeting you all! Please contact us at katelin.markcrow@cemus.uu.se and isabel.baudish@cemus.uu.se if you have any questions. ‘
Cheers!
Katie and Isabel
Course Essentials
- Syllabus
- Welcome Letter SDPMC Spring 2018
- Course Information SDPMC Spring 2018
- SDPMC VT18 Schedule (last updated 25 January)
- General Grading Criteria
- How to Reference (Harvard System – Anglia Ruskin University)
- Language and Writing Support
- Support Services for all students and Special Pedagogical Support
Literature
- The Course Reader
- Stibbe et al (2014) The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy : Skills for a Changing World
- Holmes et al. (2011), The Common Cause Handbook, PIRC
- Lilliesköld and Eriksson (2009), Handbook for Small Projects, Liber
and one of the following:
- Chouinard (2016), Let My People Go Surfing, Penguin Books
- Gladwell (2011) Outliers, Little, Brown and Company
Autumn 2017
Course Essentials
- Syllabus
- Welcome Letter SDPMC Fall 2017
- Course Information SDPMC Fall 2017
- Schedule SDPMC Fall 2017 (Last Update 9 October)
- General Grading Criteria
- How to Reference (Harvard System – Anglia Ruskin University)
- Language and Writing Support
- Support Services for all students and Special Pedagogical Support
Class Materials
Lecture slides and other class resources found here :
11th October
17.10.11 Ethics of Project Management
3rd October
17.10.03 Facilitation and Elevator Pitching
2nd October
17.10.02 Price of Social Media
27th September
17.09.27 Football as a Catalyst for Change Slides
17.09.27 Football as a Catalyst for Change Extra Material
26th September
25th September
17.09.25 Presentation Techniques
20th September
12th September
17.09.12 Innovation, Ideation and Values
6th September
17.09.06 Psychology and Communication
5th September
17.09.05 Systems Thinking for Sustainable Projects
30th August
17.08.30 Sustainable Development and the End of History Lecture Slides
17.08.30 Sustainable Development and the End of History – Link to Recording
17.08.30 The Emergence of Sustainable Development
29th August
Literature
- Holmes et al. (2011), The Common Cause Handbook, PIRC
- Lilliesköld and Eriksson (2009), Handbook for Small Projects, Liber
and one of the following:
- Chouinard (2016), Let My People Go Surfing, Penguin Books
- Gladwell (2011) Outliers, Little, Brown and Company
and the Course Reader:
30th August
Sustainable Development: A Short History
(I) Pissani (2007) Sustainable development – Historical roots of the Concept
Sustainability Development and the End of History
(I) AtKisson (2014), How to be a more effective agent of change, TEDxUppsalaUniversity
(II) AtKisson (2013) Sustainability is for Everyone. ISIS Academy. pp6-17
(III) Centre for Sustainable Transformation (2016) 7 Ways to Approach Change
(IV) Chelsea Green Blog (2016) Why Title a Book “Parachuting Cats into Borneo”?
4th September
Storytelling
(I) Wood, J (2009), How Fiction Works. Jonathan Cape, London.
Project Panel
(I) Pinto, J. K. (2013). Lies, damned lies, and project plans: Recurring human errors that can ruin the project planning process. Business Horizons. 56:5, pp. 643-653.
5th September
Artivism
(I) Beautiful Trouble Contributors (2017) Beautiful Trouble
(III) Canning & Reinsborough ReImagining Change : An Introduction to Story Based Strategy
Systems Thinking
(I) Rockstrom et al (2009) Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity
(II) Meadows (1999) Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System. The Sustainability Institute. Hartland.
(III) Open Working Group of the General Assembly on Sustainable Development Goals (2015) Open Working Group Proposal for Sustainable Development Goals
6th September
Psychology and communication- why don’t we act?
(I) Espen (2015), What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming (Chapter 4 p35-53)
11th September
Literature & Assignment 1 Seminar
Please come prepared to discuss your assignment and course literature up to this point in the course.
12th September
Values, Ideation and Divergent Thinking
(I) Dyer, Gregersen, and Christensen, “Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators,” Harvard Business Working Knowledge, July 20, 201
(II) Steven Johnson, “The Genius of the Tinkerer,” Wall Street Journal, September 25, 2010
(III) Maria Popova, “Fixed vs. Growth—the Two Basic Mindsets that Shape Our Lives,” Brain Pickings, January 29, 2014
(IV) Christopher Gergen and Gregg Vanourek, “Life Entrepreneurship: Leading Your Life,” Leader to Leader, Spring 2008
(V) Chris Dixon, “Founder/Market Fit,” CDixon, June 20, 2011
Additional Recommended Readings:
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi et al., “Flow” chapter in Carol Dweck et al., Handbook of Competence and Motivation, 2005, only pages 600-604
Paul Graham, “How to Get Startup Ideas,” PaulGraham.com, November 2012
Yair Harel, “Entrepreneurs Should Watch out for Cognitive Biases and the Curse of Knowledge,” Entrepreneur, November 13, 2015
13th September
Team Dynamics
(I) Aritzeta et al (2007) Belbin’s Team Role Model
And complete the following questionaire before class
18th September
Project Formation I
(I) Senge, P. (2008). Never Doubt What One Person and a Small group of Co-Conspirators Can Do. Excerptfrom: The Necessary Revolution. Doubleday.
(II) Hodgson, D. & Cicmil, S. (2006). New Possibilities for PM Theory: A Critical Engagement. Project Management Institute. 37:3, pp. 111-122.
20th September
Project Gameplan!
25th September
Presentation Techniques
(I) John S. Dryzek & Alex Y. Lo (2015). Reason and rhetoric in climate communication. Environmental Politics, 24:1, 1-16. (Includes reading instructions to be prepared prior to the lecture)
II) McKenzie-Mohr, D. (2010). Communication, Creating Effective Messages. A chapter from the online book Fostering Sustainable Behaviour
III) Lunsford, Ruszkiewicz & Walters (2012). Everything’s an Argument. 6th Edition. Chapter 15. Please note that an Adobe pdf-viewer is needed to access the file (it’s free on adobe.com) and the password”rhetoric”.
26th September
Common cause – Values and Sustainability
(I) Holmes et al. (2011). The Common Cause Handbook. Public Interest Research Center.
(II) Brooks, David (2016). The Power of Altruism. The New York Times. July 8 2016.
27th September
Football as a Force for Development
(I) Kabeer (2000). Resources, Agency, Achievements: Reflections on the Measurement of Women’s Empowerment
(II) Thornton (2017) Reclaiming Social Entrepreneurship, TEDxBend
2nd October
Can social media change the world?
(I) The Factory in the Living Room, Sut Jhally
(II) Lawrence Lessig (2006), Code 2.0 (Chapter 1)
(III) The Diamond Life, Sut Jhally
(IV) Stories of Electronics (2010)
(V) Vincent Mosco (2014), Up to the Cloud
3rd October
Facilitation and Elevator Pitching
4th October
Project Feedback
(I) Smith, B. L., MacGregor, J. T. (1992). What is Collaborative Learning?. Washington Center for Improving the Quality of undergraduate Education
(II) Cuddy, Amy (2012) Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are
10th October
Towns in Transition
(I) Hopkins (2012)
11th October
Ethics of Project Management
(I) Santa Clara University (2017) A Framework for Thinking Ethically
(I) Vitell, S. J., Nwachukwu, S. L., & Barnes, J. H. (1993). The effects of culture on ethical decision-making: An application of Hofstede’s typology. Journal of Business Ethics, 12(10), 753-760.
17th October
Visual Communication
Individual Assignment Instructions
Group Project Instructions
- Project Proposal
- Collaborative Agreement
- Project Pitch
- Project Plan (including Stakeholder Analysis template)
- Project Short Film
- Tips for Project Proposal and Plan
Make Up Tasks
- Literature and Assignment 1 Seminar
- Team Dynamics I
- Literature and Assignment 2 Seminar
- Less than 75% Attendance
ALL SUBMISSIONS will be made at www.studentportalen.uu.se
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Message Board
Cheers
Latest version of the Schedule has been uploaded. Please note the inclusion of the open events happening in Uppsala this week, including William Powers and Rob Hopkins’s talks tomorrow.
See you this morning in Kollaboratoriet for the pitches!
Cheers
Cheers!
A reminder to complete the personality test excercise for tomorrow’s class on Team Dynamics.
Cheers!
6th September
1. Paolo from Tuesday’s Artivism has passed on some additional reading material based on your questions. This resource – ReImagining Change – An Introduction to Story-Based Strategy can be found in the course reader.
2. There are some upcoming events at CEMUS including the UUCCPlatform meeting Wednesday 17-18, the Project Cafe this Thursday 15-17 and an art space at Kulterenatten on Saturday 15-18. We highly encourage attending! More information can be found here:
http://www.web.cemus.se/events/
A reminder for tomorrow’s Silent Walk to come prepared to be outside for some hours (i.e. dress for all weather!) and maybe bring something to sit on if it’s wet (e.g. jacket, plastic bag).
We also found a map to help you navigate the maze that is EBC
A reminder to complete the evaluations after each class – they are an important source of feedback for us.
Cheers!
Katie and Izzie
Cheers
Spring 2017
Welcome to the Sustainable Development – Project Management and Communication course for Spring 2017! Hope you are getting excited for our journey together this semester. We are looking forward to meeting you all! Please contact us at sdproject@csduppsala.uu.se if you have any questions.
Cheers
Isabel and Katie
Schedule & Course Info
Literature
- Atkinsson, Alan (2011), The Sustainability Transformation, Earthscan
- Holmes et al. (2011), The Common Cause Handbook, PIRC (Part of the course reader)
- Lilliesköld and Eriksson (2009), Handbook for Small Projects, Liber
- The Course Reader can be found at www.studentportalen.uu.se
Examination
Autumn 2016
Welcome to the Sustainable Development – Project Management and Communication course! Please contact us at sdproject@csduppsala.uu.se
Schedule & Course Info
Literature
- Atkinsson, Alan (2011), The Sustainability Transformation, Earthscan
- Holmes et al. (2011), The Common Cause Handbook, PIRC (Part of the course reader)
- Lilliesköld and Eriksson (2009), Handbook for Small Projects, Liber
- The Course Reader can be found at www.studentportalen.uu.se
Examination
Spring 2016
Welcome to the Sustainable Development – Project Management and Communication course! Please contact us at karl.andreasson[a]csduppsala.uu.se
Schedule & Course Info
Literature
- Atkinsson, Alan (2011), The Sustainability Transformation, Earthscan
- Holmes et al. (2011), The Common Cause Handbook, PIRC (Part of the course reader)
- Lilliesköld and Eriksson (2009), Handbook for Small Projects, Liber
- Gallo, Carmine (2014), Talk like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World’s Top Minds, St. Martin’s Press
- The Course Reader can be found at www.studentportalen.uu.se
Examination
Archive
No class tomorrow
2016-01-26 18:59
Hi SDPMC-ers!
Just a reminder that the class tomorrow Wednesday the 26th has been moved! Social Entrepreneurship is a important perspective and we are looking for a new lecturer to cover the topic but that will be later on in the course.
Instead take the time to get started on the reading! The first individual assignment and an updated schedule will be uploaded in a day or two.
Sincerely
Karl
Visit to the municipality
2016-01-24 23:18
Dear SDPMC-ers!
This monday we meet with representatives from the municipality and then take a little walk around town.
Dress warm and we meet at 0915 at Stora Torget (The main square) before going together to the city hall.
If there are any questions or anyone gets lost you can call me at 0708-444163
Sincerely
Karl
Autumn 2015
WELCOME NEW STUDENTS
Welcome to the course Sustainable Development – Project Management and Communication at the Centre for Environment and Development Studies CEMUS, a part of CSD Uppsala. Here you will find our schedule, examination tasks, literature and updates relevant to the course. Lectures and seminars are held at day time. The course is given in English.
Contact us with your questions at sdproject@csduppsala.uu.se
Schedule & Course Info
Literature
- Holmes et al. (2011), The Common Cause Handbook, PIRC (Part of the course reader)
- Lilliesköld and Eriksson (2009), Handbook for Small Projects, Liber
- Gallo, Carmine (2014), Talk like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World’s Top Minds, St. Martin’s Press
- Sachs, Jeffrey (2015), The Age of Sustainable Development, Colombia University Press
- In addition you will have to read another book for the final individual assignment. We will let you know in time which one that will be.
Examination
- Examination will be posted during the course
Archive
Roll Call (Upprop) and Course Introduction
The first day of the course is Monday, August 31st. We will meet in Room 12:228 in Blåsenhus between 13-16pm. Make sure to show up for the roll call to keep your place in the course! For those of you that have applied through antagning.se, you need to register online on Studentportalen by Monday, August 24th the latest! If you have any further questions email us at sdproject@csduppsala.uu.se.
Looking forward to meeting you!
Karl and Friedi