Internship in Environmental Science and Sustainable Development

Aim

After completion of the course, the student should, on an advanced, level be able to:

• prioritize and assess relevant information to perform a specific analytical assignment within environmental science and sustainable development
• systematically process, analyze and evaluate information collected within the framework of an analytical task and relate the analysis to relevant research
• plan and carry out an analytical task in environmental science and sustainable development in collaboration with an organization and within given time and resource frames
• communicate the results and process of the analytical assignment orally and through text.

Content

The course is conducted as an internship at an external organization within the field of Environmental Science and Sustainable Development. A central part of the course is to plan and carry out an analytical task relevant to the subject area, in collaboration with the external organization, which is analyzed and related to current research and to one's own experience and presented in the form of an individual independent work.

The contact person at the external organization shall, in consultation with the student, design the assignment and support the student during the internship period. The assignment must be approved by the course coordinator before the course starts. The student is responsible to find an external organization where the internship will be performed. The Internship can be performed in Sweden or abroad.