Environmental Politics

Education facts

Code: SVAM02

The course introduces and provides in-depth study of environmental politics and the problems and opportunities that it and its institutions entail in relation to the handling of environmental threats, as well as basic political science concepts relevant for environmental politics. Theoretical and empirical perspectives on environmental politics are included. The local, national, and international dimensions of environmental problems and environmental work are examined and related to the function of the political system. The course also covers various ideological and institutional obstacles to the implementation of environmental policy change. The course concludes with a methodology component. Students perform a policy analysis of an environmental issue, write a report, and present it orally in an examination seminar. Instruction is in the form of lectures and mandatory seminars, some of which are chaired by the students. All seminars are part of the examination. In the seminars, students are expected to be able to contribute competent analytical comments to discussions, and chair one such discussion.

Entry requirements

90 ECTS credits at the undergraduate level with a major in Political Science. Upper secondary level Swedish 3/B or upper secondary level Swedish as a second language 3/B, and upper secondary level English 6/A, or equivalent

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.

• Environmental Politics

  Karlstad University

  Karlstad

  Start date: 14 December 2026

  End date: 17 January 2027

  Pace of study: 100 %