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Bachelor programme in Planning and Cultural Understanding
Degree
The Bachelor’s programme in Planning and Cultural Understanding leads to a Bachelor of Arts. Duration of the programme is 3 years (180 ECTS credits).
Programme Responsibility
The Department of Planning and Community Studies, the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tromsø. The programme language is Norwegian.
Language of instruction
Norwegian
Application deadline: 15. April
Programme coordinator
The Programme Board
Programme description
This course of study offers an introduction to Social Sciences. It is based on a disciplinary way of working, and is built up using theory from Human Geography, Sociology, Political Science and Social Anthropology. Perspectives from these academic fields are used in the study of local and regional processes. Special awareness is placed on planning projects in the public and private sector. Planning is viewed in the light of daily life, business life, the public sector, gender and culture. Co-operation and conflict between the local level and global processes, and between the centre and the periphery, are central themes. The teaching is closely linked to current research and the reality of planning and development work.
Admission requirement
Studies in Civic Planning qualify for acceptance onto the master’s degree course in Civic Planning and Cultural Understanding. This course of study also serves for acceptance onto the master’s degree course in Human Geography. Sub-topics may contribute as support subjects in other areas of study.
This course of study gives the students a broad Social Science competence. The completed Civic Planning bachelor degree offers work opportunities within public administration and planning and development work, as well as in private business.
Subject Organization
The bachelor programme in Civic Planning and Cultural Understanding prepares for a standard study programme of 30 points (ECTS) per semester. Parts of the programme are compulsory, such as for example ex. phil. and ex. fac., which are common to all the Social Science study programmes, and an introductory study programme (SVF-1000) that is common to all students of Sociology, Social Anthropology and Education. In addition, the following subjects are compulsory:
- SPL 1001 Plan, næring og kultur – Planning, Business and Culture
- SPL 1002 Samfunnsgeografi – Human Geography
- SPL 1003 Lokale prosesser og kulturforståelse – Local Processes and Cultural Understanding
- SVF 1050 Samfunnsvitenskapelig metode – Social Science Method
- SPL 2001 Regionale analyser med feltkurs – Regional Analysis with Field Course
- SOS 2001 Sosologiske analysemåter – Sociological Analysis Forms
- SPL 2002 Planlegging, politikk og forvaltning – Planning, Politics and Administration
- SVF-2005 Geografiske informasjonssystem i fortid nåtid og framtid, del I – Geographical Information Systems in the Past, Present and Future I
- SPL-2003 Lokal, regional og global utvikling – Local, Regional and Global Development
The course of study concludes with SPL-2003.
In addition, the following optional subjects are offered on an occasional basis:
- SPL-2004 Praksissemester – Practical Semester (30 points)
- SPL-2005 Bedrifts- og næringsorganisering – Industrial and Business Organization (10 points)
- SPL-2006 Nye lokale styringsformer – New Forms of Local Administration(10 points)
- SPL-2007 Theories of Development and Globalisation (10 points)
- SPL-2008 Tverrfaglig kjønnsforskning – Interdisciplinary Gender Research (10 points)
- SPL-2009 Kommunikativ planlegging – Communicative Planning (10 points)
There is a general requirement that subjects should be completed at 1000-level before being studied at 2000-level. It is recommended that optional subjects (50 points in all) should be taken within the relevant academic field, possibly within the Planning Institute’s Nordplus network and other networks (see point 5, Study Abroad, below). Teacher training may be included in this course of study so that 60 optional points are accounted for in another teaching field (outside Social Sciences) and a practical education semester.
Procedure for a change of programme: it is possible to change programme after the first year of study has been completed.
In the bachelor dissertation in the 6th semester it will be possible to make use of an interdisciplinary perspective or become more specialized in one of the four disciplinary fields, but it is then expected that the student will have chosen subjects from the academic field in question within the optional section of the course.
Student exchange
It is recommended that study abroad should take place during the 4th and/or 5th semester(s), preferably at one of the partnership universities: Roskilde University Centre, as part of the Nordplus network: Regional and Human Geography. Talks are currently in progress with other partnership universities, including the University of Ngaoundéré in Cameroon. In addition, Planning Institute students may take advantage of discussions currently in progress with other institutes.
Teaching and Examination Procedures
In addition to ordinary seminars and lectures, group work and project dissertations must also be prepared. Project-orientated forms of work will be emphasized, including those linked to fieldwork, the autumn seminar and practical planning. The Planning Institute’s examination procedures include a combination of different models, with special emphasis on essays and take-home assignments. Grades are awarded on a scale A-F, where F is a fail, or on the basis of pass/fail.
Study Progression
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