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Essentials of Future-Orientated Sustainable DevelopmentLaajuus (5 cr)

Code: YA00BE19

Credits

5 op

Learning objectives

The student:
- Comprehends essential concepts and background on both national and global sustainable development approach
- Qualifies individual, communal, and organizational positive and negative impact on environment and climate change
- Applies sustainable development approach to resolve futural, work-oriented and multidisciplinary challenges
- Innovates future-orientated and sustainable solutions for challenges in communities or organizations
- Discovers financial solutions regarding sustainable development

Content

• Eco-social context in promoting sustainable development
• National and global sustainable development goals
• The four pillars of sustainability:
o Human
o Social
o Economic
o Environmental
• Multidisciplinary cases
• Creative methods
• New technological innovations

Timing

11.04.2024 - 16.05.2024

Credits

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Teachers
  • Ilkka Virolainen
  • Maria Luojus
Enrollment

01.08.2023 - 15.09.2023

Timing

01.03.2024 - 31.05.2024

Credits

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Teachers
  • Ilkka Virolainen
  • Maria Luojus
Student groups
  • YA23SY
    Sustainable Future (Master's Degree)
Enrollment

15.03.2018

Timing

12.04.2023 - 17.05.2023

Credits

5 op

Virtual proportion (cr)

5 op

RD proportion (cr)

5 op

Mode of delivery

Distance learning

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

1 - 4000

Degree programmes
  • Master's Degree Programme in
Teachers
  • Ilkka Virolainen
  • Inka Nykänen
  • Maria Luojus

Teaching methods

The course is studied independently in the Savonia University of Applied Science’s Moodle eLearning Platform. Moodle web-course opens on 12.4.2023 at 10.00 a.m. and closes on 17.5.2023 on 23.59 p.m.
The highest total number of scores is 100. To pass the course, following minimum number of scores are required for the sections 1.–3.:
1. Exam: required minimum number of scores is 8 (maximum number of scores is 40)
2. Innovation assignment: required minimum number of scores is 8 (maximum number of scores is 40)
3. Motivation essay: required minimum number of scores is 4 (maximum number of scores is 20)
Furthermore, to be selected in the master’s study program, an applicant must be in the top of 50 applicants based on total number of scores from the sections 1.–3.
Course content:
• Eco-social context
• National and global sustainable development goals
• The four pillars of sustainability:
- Human
- Social
- Economic
- Environmental
• Multidisciplinary cases
• Creative methods
• New technological innovations

Practical training and working life cooperation

Multidisciplinary cases in course material are based on sustainable development simulations in working life. In motivation essay, a student describes aims on promoting future-oriented sustainable development in her/his own field.

Materials

Online material in the Moodle web-course and reviewed articles