Welcome to Sustainable Development - Project Management and Communication, 15 hp, fall 2011

1. Welcome to Sustainable Development - Project Management and Communication, 15 hp, fall 2011 • CEMUS, Center for Environment and Development Studies: • Started as a student initiative 1990’s. • Student centered education. • Courses organized by students. • Multi-disciplinary • CEMUS turning 20 years 2012! • Course coordinators: • Mia Ågren and Per Andersson • csdsdproj@csduppsala.uu.se • What can YOU do at cemus? • Cemus Roots • Open lectures • Cemus Forum (meeting place) • Project Café!

2. LEARNING OUTCOMES On completion of the course, the student should be able to: • thoroughly describe a delimited part of the sustainability challenge; • plan, carry out and present a project work that applies theoretical knowledge and contributes to a sustainable development; • demonstrate good ability to work independently; • account for and evaluate the practical problems that can arise when working with projects; • account for and critically relate to the practical and ethical dilemmas that can arise when working for a sustainable development. • Seminars and written Assignments 7,5 hp • Assignments 5 hp • Seminars 2,5 hp • Project 7,5 hp • Project Plan ( 1 hp) • Project Report and work on project (4,5 hp) • Workshops (1 ,5 hp) • Project Fair and presentation (0,5 hp) • Own time to work on project in the implementation and evaluation phase = ~160hrs

3. WS 2 days WS WS WS WS Project Plan WrittenAssignment1 L L L L L w. 35 w. 36 w. 37 w. 38 w. 39 w. 40 w.41 WrittenAssignment 3: L Status report 2 Status report 1 Project fair Ws ws WrittenAssignment 2: Seminar on assignment3 Project report WrittenAssignment 4 Project Café everyothertuesdayscemuslibrary (evenweeks): For those who wants/needs: Discuss your projects for feedback/input (or just meet up!) Course and EvaluaEndingtions Seminar on projectplan Seminar on Assignment4 Seminar on assignment1 Seminar on assignment2 Project Café Project Café Project Café Project Café Fika Fika Fika Fika Own work Own work w. 42 w. 43 w. 44 w. 45 w. 46 w. 47 w.48 w. 49 w. 50 L ws

4. Course Books • Holman & Devine (2007), The Change Handbook – The Definitive Resource on Today’s Best Methods for Engaging Whole Systems, Berret-Koehler Publishers, Inc. • Note: The whole book is NOT to be read. Part 1, pages 1- 69 is to be read for the workshop on September 8. • Roam, Dan (2009), The Back of the Napkin – Solving problems and selling ideas with pictures, Marshall Cavendish International. • AtKisson, Alan (1999), Believing Cassandra - An optimist looks at a pessimist’s world, Chelsea Green Publishing Company. • Lilliesköld and Eriksson (2009), Handbook for small projects, Liber • Your book of choice: • Choose one of the following books: • Suzuki (2007), The Sacred Balance – Rediscovering our place in nature, Greystone Books.In The Sacred Balance, the genetic researcher and environmentalist David Suzuki makes a thorough investigation on man’s relation to her surroundings and all things living. • Jensen & McBay, (2009), What We Leave Behind, Seven Stories Press. An historical analysis and devastatingly beautiful prose to remind us that life human and nonhuman – will not go on unless we do everything we can to facilitate the most basic process on earth, the root of sustainability: one being’s waste must always become another being’s food. • Plumwood, Val (1993), Feminism and The Mastery of Nature.Feminism and the Mastery of Nature explains the relation between ecofeminism, or ecological feminism, and other feminist theories including radical green theories such as deep ecology. Val Plumwood provides a philosophically informed account of the relation of women and nature, and shows how relating male domination to the domination of nature is important and yet remains a dilemma for women. Places of purchase: Studentbokhandeln, Sysslomansgatan 7 Internet (might be cheaper): www.bokia.se, www.bokus.se, www.adlibris.se, lycknis.se

5. Successful Project

6. New Ways To See The World The End