Course syllabus - Leadership for Sustainable Change 1 - Building Change Mindsets and Reflective Competencies (LSC1)

Objectives

The general purpose of all Leadership for Societal Change (LSC) courses is to develop management practices that support a green transition of industry, which is largely about taking initiatives to create conditions and leading processes for alternative technology development. The specific purpose of the Leadership for Societal Change 1 course is to shape students' critical reflective competencies, making them more prone to question existing technology and processes and, through initiatives for new practices learn from their experiences and master their further personal development as transformative leaders for a more sustainable industry and society.

Learning outcomes

After completing the course, the student shall have developed:

Knowledge and understanding

A critical understanding of how theoretical and practical reflection, together with action, builds competence development and leadership within a green transition of workplaces and society.

Skills and abilities

The ability to, through action, together with theoretical reflection, create a personal learning strategy for leading a green transformation of workplaces and society.

Evaluation and approach

The ability to critically assess and question how one's own and others' thinking and actions create change and contribute to a green transformation of workplaces and society.

Course content

Leadership for Societal Change courses are designed to be formative, flexible and built on the premise that students have difficulty leaving work and coming to campus at specific dates and times.

The course structure includes all material available on the learning platform from day 1, which makes it possible for the student to complete the different parts of the course at their own pace and in their chosen order (except for the final exam part). As support, there are recorded introductory lectures for each course as well as recorded lectures that present each task, including theoretical reviews.

Students complete for each course a required number of selected tasks (from a task bank) for INL1, in an order of their own choosing, plus a final mandatory task, INL2.

Specific requirements

A bachelor's degree of at least 180 credits or at least 90 credits with progressive specialization including at least five years of general work experience. In addition, Swedish course 3 or Swedish level 3 and English course 6 or English level 2 are required. For courses given entirely in English exemption is made from the requirement in Swedish course 3 or Swedish level 3.

Examination

Assignment (INL1), 2 credits, grade Passed (G) (Refers to learning objectives 1-3)
Final Assignment (INL2), 0.5 credits, grade Passed (G) (Refers to learning objectives 1-3)

A student who has a certificate from MDU regarding disability study support, can request adaptions for the examination. It is the examiner who takes decisions on any adaptions, based on the certificate and other conditions.

Grade

Two-grade scale