Universität Wien

010109 SE Sustainability as a challenge. An interdisciplinary approach (2022W)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 1 - Theologien und Religionswiss.
Continuous assessment of course work
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Details

Language: English

Lecturers

Classes

ATTENTION: ROOMS AND TIMES HAVE BEEN CHANGED on Nov. 4, 2022
The seminar will take place as follows:
Monday: 11 am-5.30 pm Alte Kapelle, CAMPUS Altes AKH
Tuesday: 11.30 am-3.30 pm Alte Kapelle, CAMPUS Altes AKH
Wednesday: 2 pm-5.30 pm Alte Kapelle, CAMPUS Altes AKH
Thursday: 9.45-1pm Seminarraum 1&2, Institutsgebäude Schenkenstraße 8-10, Ground floor (left)
Friday: 9am-12.30am Seminarraum 1&2, Institutsgebäude Schenkenstraße 8-10, Ground floor (left)
and 2-5.30pm Excursion
Additionally, one of the following working groups for each students:
working group 1: Tuesday 9.30-11 Dekanatssitzungssaal, Meeting Room of the Catholic Theological Faculty, Main Building, 2nd floor
working group 2: Tuesday 4pm-5.30pm, Alte Kapelle, CAMPUS Altes AKH
working groups 3,4: Thursday 1.15 pm-2.45 pm Seminarraum 1&2, Institutsgebäude Schenkenstraße 8-10, Ground floor (left)

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Following the seminar in the previous semester, the seminar is dedicated to approaches to the topic of sustainability in other disciplines, especially from the humanities. Through an excursion, it offers a personal confrontation with the topic and reflection on the formation of personal attitudes as well as the broad spectrum of meanings of sustainability.
Methodologically, inputs from experts, text study, film discussion, a field trip and student presentations will be used as well as joint discussions.
The seminar will be held in English. The seminar is open to students from the CEEPUS Bioethics program.

Assessment and permitted materials

Required during the seminar, in addition to active participation, is a short presentation as part of a group work and a written seminar paper.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Regular attendance (10%), short presentation (30%), written seminar paper (60%).

Examination topics

- regular and active participation (please excuse yourself via e-mail from participation)
- oral paper should present key points and stimulate discussion
- in the context of a seminar paper, a sub-topic from the context of the seminar is to be written with reference to relevant secondary literature in the scope of 15 pages (incl. title page, table of contents and bibliography).

Reading list

Deutscher Bundestag (1998): The concept of sustainability. Form vision to reality ; final report submitted by the 13. German Bundestag's Enqete Commission on the "Protection of Humanity and the Environment: Objectives and General Conditions of Sustainable Development". In: Zur Sache 98,4.
Hey, Christian; Schleicher-Tappeser, Ruggero (1998): Nachhaltigkeit trotz Globalisierung. Handlungsspielräume auf regionaler, nationaler und europäischer Ebene. Berlin: Springer (Konzept Nachhaltigkeit).
Kroek, Thomas (2020): Sustainability. Reconciliation with Creation, Global Neighbours and Future Generations. In: Tobias Faix, Johannes Reimer und Cobus van Wyngaard (Hg.): Reconciliation. Christian perspectives - interdisciplinary approaches. Wien, Zürich: Lit (Interdisziplinäre und theologische Studien, Band 3), S. 195–214.
Vogt, Markus; Weber, Christoph (2019): Current challenges to the concept of sustainability. In: Glob. Sustain. 2. DOI: 10.1017/sus.2019.1.

Association in the course directory

für 011 (15W) FTH 17 oder FTH 26, 198 418 BA UF RK 16, 199 518 MA UF RK 02 oder RK 05, 033 195 (17W) BRP 18krp, BRP 18ktb

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