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SANT2032 - Environment, Cultural Politics & Justice

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New from the academic year 2024/2025

Examination arrangement

Examination arrangement: School exam
Grade: Letter grades

Evaluation Weighting Duration Grade deviation Examination aids
School exam 100/100 4 hours E

Course content

Students taking this course will examine how humans have recently altered the global environment in ways that have no precedent in human history or in geological time. With the contemporary environmental crisis as its backdrop, this course examines contemporary anthropological and social science approaches to the environment and environmentalism: governmentality, environmental history, cultural studies, and environmental justice. We will examine coastal and island community struggles in the context of today’s climate change and their responses to escalating climate and industrial disasters. We will also examine processes of climate denial that reflects inequalities of power between communities and corporations that underpin ruination in many global contexts.

Learning outcome

A student who has completed the course is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes, defined in terms of knowledge, skills, and general competence:

Knowledge

  • Knowledge of anthropology's distinctive features and its classic perspectives on environment, cultural politics and justice
  • Insight into central anthropological works and how they build on and differ from each other
  • Insight into the interaction between academic theory development and societal processes.

Skills

  • Basic understandings of the subject’s recent development
  • Ability to critically reflect on subject texts in a constructive way
  • Acquire skills in academic writing.

General competence

  • Ability to critically assess professional perspectives, knowledge base and implications;
  • Ability to question taken for granted values, behavior and habits, and thus better understand other modes and approaches to the climate crisis.

Learning methods and activities

A combination of lectures and seminar discussion.

Compulsory assignments

  • Oral presentation in seminar

Further on evaluation

4-hour written school exam

Course materials

The reading list will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From To
SANT2023 7.5 AUTUMN 2024
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Facts

Version: 1
Credits:  7.5 SP
Study level: Intermediate course, level II

Coursework

Term no.: 1
Teaching semester:  AUTUMN 2024

Language of instruction: English

Location: Trondheim

Subject area(s)
  • Social Anthropology
Contact information
Course coordinator:

Department with academic responsibility
Department of Social Anthropology

Timetable

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Examination

Examination arrangement: School exam

Term Status code Evaluation Weighting Examination aids Date Time Examination system Room *
Autumn ORD School exam 100/100 E 2024-11-26 15:00 INSPERA
Room Building Number of candidates
SL310 turkis sone Sluppenvegen 14 16
Spring ORD School exam 100/100 E 2025-06-04 15:00 INSPERA
Room Building Number of candidates
SL111 brun sone Sluppenvegen 14 1
  • * The location (room) for a written examination is published 3 days before examination date. If more than one room is listed, you will find your room at Studentweb.
Examination

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