EHS4001 – Knowing Natures: Field Excursions

The course is taught through workshops and excursions to different sites within the urban environments of Oslo, where you will meet and interact with the people who care about them. Drawing on selected readings you will then choose one of these sites and produce a short reflective essay based on your excursion. You will also develop a proposal for the project you will complete in the autumn semester through EHS4002: Knowing Natures - Creative Research Project.

Through the course you will:

• Explore Oslo`s environments in interdisciplinary groups to identify and better understand local and global environmental challenges
• Engage with a variety of actors and communities involved in the management of Oslo's urban environments, including for example scholars, activists, artists, advocates, policy-makers or politicians
• Gain familiarity with a place-based and place-specific methodologies as a basis for research and environmental practice

You will gain:

• A richer, multi-faceted understanding of environmental issues in the place where you live
• Experience connecting your theoretical readings to practice and lived experience
• Opportunities to connect with environmentally engaged actors, practitioners and students from other disciplines

This course is taught as part of the Honours Certificate in Environmental Humanities and Society (EHS) (honours certificate). Only students enrolled in the certificate can be admitted to it.

Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.

Portfolio

Students must submit a field report based on one excursion (2 pages) and proposal for a research project to be completed in the autumn semester (1-2 pages). One standard page is approximately 2300 characters without spaces, including references. The front page and bibliography are not included in the page count.

The topic/detailed information regarding the portfolio will be announced on Canvas.

You must submit the exam in Inspera - see guides for digital exams.

You are personally responsible for familiarizing yourself with the requirements and deadlines for the exam.

All compulsory activities must be completed and approved in order to take the exam.

You can find more information about the exam on the semester page of the course.