ESH4100 – Education for Sustainable Health
Schedule, syllabus and examination date
Course content
This course aims to provide students with an understanding of challenges to sustainable health, as well as potential means to confront those challenges, from a variety of theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical perspectives.
Learning outcome
Knowledge
A student who has completed this module of the Honours certificate will be able to:
- Explain the relationship between sustainability and health,?including key issues such as the impact on climate change on health, and antimicrobial resistance
- Account for the political paradoxes and tensions inherent in sustainability thinking in general and in sustainable healthcare in particular
- Account for the history and usage of sustainability as a concept
Skills
A student who has completed this module of the Honours certificate will be able to:
- Analyze and describe complex systems and their interdependence in relation to healthcare challenges
- Critically reflect on what sustainable healthcare education entails
- Work in teams across disciplines and constructively collaborate on topics pertaining to sustainability
General competence
A student who has completed this module of the Honours certificate will be able to:
- Understand and evaluate multiple futures - possible, probable and desirable
- Reflect on the norms and values that underlie actions and negotiate sustainability values, principles, goals, and targets, in a context of conflict,contradiction, and uncertainty
- Cooperate productively with peers from different areas of expertise
Admission to the course
This course is part of the Honors certificate
This course is only available for students admitted to this certificate.
Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.
If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures.
Teaching
The course consists ot two semester - spring and autumn.
The teaching is hybrid.?Classes will mainly be held between 16:15 and 18:00 in the afternoon.
The format consists of both standard lectures and interactive seminars.
Compulsory activities:
- Active participation in group work from students is expected throughout the course.
- The course requires at least 70% attendance. Attendance will be registered
Compulsory activities must be completed to be eligible to take the exam.
Examination
Written individual assignment - two exam parts
Based on mandatory group work to produce an introductory text book for the course, two individual assignments must be submitted:
- Part 1 - spring semester: Submission of one assigned section of the text book.
- Part 2 - autumn semester: Submission of an edited assigned section of the textbook written by a fellow student where you constructively comment on how you have assessed the section and what changes you have made to the section.
Both exam parts must be passed to complete the course.
Compulsory activities must be completed to be eligible to take the exam.
Examination and grading at The Faculty of Medicine.
Language of examination
The examination text is given in English, and you submit your response in English.
Grading scale
Grades are awarded on a pass/fail scale. Read more about the grading system.
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- Illness at exams / postponed exams
- Explanation of grades and appeals
- Resitting an exam
- Cheating/attempted cheating
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