autumn 2024
SVF-3207 Resilience - 10 ECTS

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  2. Emnekatalog
  3. Resilience

Type of course

The course can be taken as a singular course.

Admission requirements

Application code 9371

Course content

The course is about the concept of resilience, which is increasingly used as an umbrella concept in dealing with safety and security issues. The concept is applied to the different fields: societal/community, organizational, technological, ecological/environmental, economic, and psychological. The course is multidisciplinary, reaching from social sciences to engineering. A great part of the course is dedicated to critical infrastructure resilience.

Objectives of the course

Knowledge:

The student ...

  • has advanced knowledge within the historical, theoretical and methodological foundations of the concept of resilience, illustrated with many case studies in a multidisciplinary spirit.
  • has an in-depth knowledge of the existing literature on resilience.
  • with the help of case studies on different dimensions of resilience, the student has knowledge of the concrete application areas of the concept of resilience, and thereby has developed a critical understanding on how to formulate interesting research problems and questions in this field.
  • has knowledge of the concept of critical infrastructure, and how resilience is related to it.

Skills:

The student ...

  • can critically analyse and apply the theoretical framework and methodological tools to do independent research on resilience, using qualitative, semi-quantitative and quantitative methods from social sciences, psychology, engineering, economics, or environmental sciences, or different combinations thereof.

General competence

The student ...

  • has a basis to work independently in practical fields within communities, administration, institutions and companies where resilience management is becoming increasingly popular.
  • can apply its knowledge on advanced projects and contribute to innovation within the field.

Language of instruction and examination

English

Teaching methods

Lectures, group-work and self-studies.

The course is organized into 10 teaching sessions of 3 hour each.

Schedule

Se timeplan

Examination

Examination: Duration: Grade scale:
School exam 5 Hours A–E, fail F

Coursework requirements:

To take an examination, the student must have passed the following coursework requirements:
Participation in exercise Approved – not approved
UiT Exams homepage

More info about the coursework requirements

Participation in the cyber range exercise.
  • About the course
  • Campus: Tromsø |
  • ECTS: 10
  • Course code: SVF-3207
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