Høst 2024

SVF-3207 Resilience - 10 stp

The course is administrated by

Institutt for teknologi og sikkerhet

Type of course

The course can be taken as a singular course.

Course contents

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.

Admission requirements

Application code 9371

Objective 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

English

Teaching methods

Lectures, group-work and self-studies.

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