ADM722 Global change and organizations (Autumn 2025)

ECTS Credits:
7.5
Responsible faculty:
Avdeling for økonomi og samfunnsvitenskap
Campus:
Molde
Course Leader:
Acar Kutay
Teaching language:
English
Study level:
{code=HN, name=Second degree level}
Duration:
½ year

Table of contents

Contents

This course offers an in-depth exploration of global changes. Through discussions, case studies and examples, students will gain a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities that states, organizations and citizens face in today's global environment. By the end of the course, students will have acquired critical skills that enable them to understand and respond to these changes.

The course is connected to the following study programs

Recommended knowledge

ADM530 Globale studier; SAF230 International Politics

Reduction of Credits

This course’s contents overlap with the following courses. A reduction of credits will occur if one of these courses is taken in addition:

Course Reduction of Credits
ADM700 – Global change and organizations. 7.5

The student's learning outcomes after passing the exam

General knowledge

After completing the course, the student will acquire the following knowledge:

  • A comprehensive understanding of various global trends and developments.
  • An ability to understand the challenges and opportunities public and private organizations face in today's changing global environment.

Skill

After completing the course, the student will acquire the following skills:

  • Critical thinking and analytical skills within the topic.
  • Participating in discussions, analyzing case studies, and applying real-world examples to understand the complexities of the global processes.
  • Being able to assess and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to understanding global changes.

Competence

After completing the course, the student will acquire the following competences:

  • Being able to navigate through the complexity of the global trends and their relations to public and private organizations, and citizens.
  • Applying critical thinking to plan and implement projects in line with requirements for truthfulness, accuracy and ethics in scientific writing.

Forms of teaching and learning

Lectures, presentations at seminars, group discussions

Coursework requirements - conditions for taking the exam

  • Presentation (pass/fail)
  • 75 % presence in class.
  • Comment: Mandatory coursework must be completed in the same semester as the course is taught, and then gives access to the ordinary exam. Approved course work also give access to the first "New and retake exam" if such an exam is arranged. The mandatory course work is no longer valid in the future. This means that students who take the course again must do the mandatory course work again.

Exam

  • Form of assessment: Digital School Exam
  • Proportion: 100 %
  • Duration: 5 hours
  • Grading scale: Letter (A - F)
  • Support material: Dictionary

Pensum

The current reading list for 2025 Autumn can be found in Leganto
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