Outlook on life and global trends

Education facts

Code: PSAM04

The course addresses and compares various spiritual and religious beliefs, both within the major world religions and among indigenous peoples and smaller communities. It describes and analyses comparisons between Western perspectives on worldviews and interpretations of knowledge and those expressed in non-Western societies. The course problematises how different beliefs and epistemologies influence people's behaviour and attitudes toward climate, environmental, and resource issues. It also explores societal trends in spirituality, both current and historical, and their connection to human psychological potential and development. The significance of how presence, connectedness, and states of consciousness can be used as tools in sustainability work is evaluated and assessed. The course includes various assignments involving self-reflection.

Entry requirements

A Bachelor degree of at least 180 ECTS credits, with 90 ECTS credits in Psychology, including an independent project of at least 15 ECTS credits at the G2E level, and upper secondary level Swedish 3 and English 6 or Swedish level 3 and English level 2, 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.

• Outlook on life and global trends

  Karlstad University

  Karlstad

  Start date: 3 May 2027

  End date: 6 June 2027

  Pace of study: 100 %