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Course syllabus - The Unsustainable: Literature and the Critique of Civilization

Scope

7.5 credits

Course code

LIA050

Valid from

Autumn semester 2024

Education level

First cycle

Progressive Specialisation

G1N (First cycle, has only upper-secondary level entry requirements).

Main area(s)

School

School of Education, Culture and Communication

Ratified

2023-12-12

Literature lists

Course literature is preliminary up to 8 weeks before course start. Course literature can be valid over several semesters.

    • Ratified date: 2024-06-24
    • Latest update: 2024-07-23

    Books

    Atwood, Margaret

    Oryx and Crake : a novel

    1st Anchor Books ed. : 2004 - 389 p.

    ISBN: 9780385721677 LIBRIS-ID: 17215451

    (eller valfri utgåva på svenska eller engelska)

    Bondestam, Linda; Bondestam, Milja

    Mitt bottenliv : av en ensam axolotl

    Helsingfors : Förlaget, 2020 - 41 onumrerade sidor

    ISBN: 9789523332966 LIBRIS-ID: jv12sjf4g87b063l

    Boye, Karin

    Astarte : roman

    Göteborg : Lindelöws bokförlag, [2021] - 174 sidor

    ISBN: 9789188753380 LIBRIS-ID: fsnhk247c8bz3tmb

    (eller valfri utgåva)

    Dickens, Charles

    Hard Times

    Harper Press, 2012 - viii, 370 sidor

    ISBN: 9780007449941 LIBRIS-ID: 0gfkbbpjxzbt6qkq

    URL: Link

    (eller valfri utgåva på svenska eller engelska)

    Haushofer, Marlen; Kjellberg, Rebecca

    Väggen

    1. uppl. : Malmö : Thorén & Lindskog, 2014 - 255 s.

    ISBN: 9789186905224 LIBRIS-ID: 14069103

    (eller valfri utgåva)

    Laestadius, Ann-Helén

    Stöld : roman

    [Stockholm] : Romanus & Selling, [2024] - 440 sidor

    ISBN: 9789189771598 LIBRIS-ID: wdjvj1z4tpz7c9z8

    (eller valfri utgåva)

    Lidman, Sara

    Gruva

    Albert Bonniers förlag, 2017 - 136 s.

    ISBN: 9789100157791 LIBRIS-ID: 19965369

    URL: Omslagsbild

    (eller valfri utgåva)

    Lindgren, Astrid; Wikland, Ilon

    Ronja rövardotter

    4. uppl. : Stockholm : Rabén & Sjögren, 2003 - 240, [2] s.

    ISBN: 9129657512 LIBRIS-ID: 9584369

    (eller valfri utgåva)

    Murata, Sayaka; Takemori, Ginny Tapley

    Convenience store woman

    First Grove Atlantic paperback edition : New York : Grove Press, 2019 - 172 sidor

    ISBN: 9780802129628 LIBRIS-ID: v5hz77l3s1c5qmhw

    URL: Link

    (eller valfri utgåva)

    Persson, Malte

    Undergången : dikter

    [Stockholm] : Albert Bonniers förlag, [2021] - 175 sidor

    ISBN: 9789100183943 LIBRIS-ID: 7lfgh914522228dq

    (eller valfri utgåva)

    Rousseau, Jean-Jacques; Gimdal, Gustaf; Grahn, Inga-Lill

    Kulturen och människan : två avhandlingar

    2. uppl. : Göteborg : Daidalos, 2012 - 171 s.

    ISBN: 9789171733672 LIBRIS-ID: 12744940

    Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft; Holmberg, John-Henri; Winberg, Måns

    Frankenstein eller den moderne Prometeus

    Lund : Novapress, [2017] - 246 sidor

    ISBN: 9789171370235 LIBRIS-ID: 20798316

    (eller valfri utgåva på svenska eller engelska)

    Thoreau, Henry David; Handberg, Peter

    Walden

    Natur & Kultur Allmänlitteratur, 2009 - 434 sidor

    ISBN: 9789127119567 LIBRIS-ID: 1kbv98zczrh309xm

    (eller valfri utgåva på svenska eller engelska)

    Compendiums

    Kompendium tema 1 (några romantiska dikter, Philips) (som pdf på Canvas)

    Kompendium tema 2 (Rydberg, Benedictsson, Ekelöf, Pettersson, Holm) (som pdf på Canvas)

    Kompendium tema 3 (Carson, Martinson, Richards) (som pdf på Canvas)

    Kompendium tema 4 (Larkin, Haux) (som pdf på Canvas)

    Kompendium tema 5 (Bradbury, Berry, Steffen et al) (som pdf på Canvas)

    URLs

    Jetnil-Kijiner, Kathy

    Anointed

    URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuDA7izeYrk

    Reference Literature

    Sörlin, Sverker

    Naturkontraktet : om naturumgängets idéhistoria

    Stockholm : Carlsson, 1991 - 293 s.

    ISBN: 9177984471 LIBRIS-ID: 7666030

Requirements

General entry requirements

Examination

INL1, Written assignment, 6 credits, written assignment concerning learning outcome 1, grades Fail (U), Pass (G) or Pass with distinction (VG).
INL2, Written assignment, 1.5 credits, written assignment concerning learning outcome 2, grades Fail (U) or Pass (G).

A student who has a certificate from MDU regarding a disability has the opportunity to submit a request for supportive measures during written examinations or other forms of examination, in accordance with the Rules and Regulations for Examinations at First-cycle and Second-cycle Level at Mälardalen University (2020/1655). It is the examiner who takes decisions on any supportive measures, based on what kind of certificate is issued, and in that case which measures are to be applied.

Suspicions of attempting to deceive in examinations (cheating) are reported to the Vice-Chancellor, in accordance with the Higher Education Ordinance, and are examined by the University’s Disciplinary Board. If the Disciplinary Board considers the student to be guilty of a disciplinary offence, the Board will take a decision on disciplinary action, which will be a warning or suspension.

Grade

Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail