SGLK22001U Creating Healthy Cities
MSc in Global Health - elective summer course
As the world becomes increasingly urbanised, crucial questions arise: How can urban living be sustainable, liveable and healthy? This summer course addresses these questions with a focus on how infrastructure, social-political conditions and the environment interact in a healthy city. The course explores urban infrastructure and how health and disease shape urban space and vice versa. It covers socio-political aspects of healthy urban living with a focus on disparities and migration. Finally, it examines environmental aspects, in particular urban adaptation to climate change, and management of disaster risks and opportunities for green and healthy urban development.
The course participants are introduced to interdisciplinary, research-based and solution-oriented approaches that integrate and cut across the three focus areas. Examples are included from urban settings around the world and are matched with real-life cases in selected locations in Copenhagen. Course participants will work with a wide range of stakeholders across sectors to integrate perspectives on urban theory with real-life challenges and solutions.
The objective of the course is to provide the course participant with knowledge, skills and competencies to identify and analyse approaches to address complex and interrelated urban challenges across the world.
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:
Knowledge
- Demonstrate in-depth knowledge about urban trends and challenges relating to infrastructure, socio-political factors and environmental risks and their interconnected nature in terms of health and wellbeing
Skills
- Identify and analyse the dynamics of creating healthy cities through both theoretical and practical lenses.
Competencies
- Discuss different theoretical positions in relation to major urban trends
- Apply approaches and tools to create solutions to a healthy urban environment
- Contribute to a constructive and effective multidisciplinary team process
Scientific publications, reports, case stories, data sets
- Category
- Hours
- Lectures
- 24
- Preparation
- 58
- Field Work
- 20
- Project work
- 30
- Exam
- 6
- Total
- 138
Please find application form at the summer course web page: http://healthsciences.ku.dk/education/summercourses/
The application deadline is 1st of April 2024.
- Credit
- 5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Practical oral examination
- Type of assessment details
- Continuous assessment with final oral exam.
During the summer course, the participants work on a case-based project in teams.
On the last day to pass the exam the project must be presented by the teams to and approved by a panel of experts including representatives from the University of Copenhagen and selected external stakeholders. - Marking scale
- passed/not passed
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
One internal examiner
- Exam period
- Re-exam
Criteria for exam assesment
Knowledge
- Demonstrate knowledge about selected urban trends and challenges relating to infrastructure, socio-political factors and environmental risks and their interconnected nature in terms of health and wellbeing
Skills
- Identify and analyse the dynamics of creating healthy cities through both theoretical and practical lenses
Competencies
- Discuss different theoretical positions in relation to major urban trends
- Apply approaches and tools to create solutions to a healthy urban environment
- Contribute to a constructive and effective multidisciplinary team process
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- SGLK22001U
- Credit
- 5 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
- Self study one week workload - self-study
On-campus, excursions and project work two weeks workload - Placement
- Summer
- Schedule
- Self-study material available from 1st of July
Full time programme in Copenhagen 5 to 16 August (incl. exam) - Course capacity
- Maximum 35. The course will only be offered provided a minimum of 25 approved course participants.
Study board
- The Study Board for Public Health Science and Global Health
Contracting department
- Department of Public Health
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
Course Coordinators
- Anne Bach Nielsen (anne.bach.nielsen@sund.ku.dk)
- Bjørg Elvekjær (belv@sund.ku.dk)
For practical questions regarding course coordination, please contact SummerCourses@sund.ku.dk