Sustainability and Social Work

Education facts

Code: SA8010

The course deals with social work in relation to ecology and environmental problems. The content is divided into three parts. Part 1 concerns social work as academic subject and practice. It discusses how established understandings of social problems and solutions can be understood and renegotiated within an eco-social sustainability perspective. Part 2 concerns issues of welfare and growth. It discusses how established understandings of welfare and growth can be understood and renegotiated within an ecosocial sustainability perspective. Part 3 addresses an emotional and existential dimension. It discusses possible ways of living and practicing in a realm characterized by unpredictability, uncertainty and suffering.

Entry requirements

120 credits within a social work programme or equivalent foreign education.

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Sustainability and Social Work

  Halmstad University

  Ortsoberoende

  Start date: 31 August 2026

  End date: 8 November 2026

  Pace of study: 50 %