Sweden

Understanding sustainability broadly, the course explores how social entrepreneurship and innovation are a particular form of organizing toward social transformation. The course provides knowledge of how to explore and evaluate social entrepreneurship and innovations in theory and practice. Different theories and intellectual tools from social sciences are used to both understand the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship and innovation and apply them to the design of social entrepreneurial ventures in groups. During the theoretical part of the course, an introduction to the academic field of social entrepreneurship and important key concepts in social innovations are reviewed. Students work in groups to develop their own social enterprise. 

Animals figure in human society and culture in multiple ways, while frequently being marginalized or reduced to commodities, production units, status symbols, and tools. This course offers a critical exploration of how a shifting economic, scientific, political, and media-shaped landscape assigns various roles and values to animals in contemporary Western society and the consequences for the living conditions of animals and humans alike. The course integrates innovative critical animal studies research from a range of areas such as sociology, media and communication studies, philosophy, cultural studies, geography, gender studies, and critical race studies.

The course covers different themes with a focus on exercise physiological and evolutionary aspects on physical activity; appetite regulation and energy balance; the genetic basis of ADHD and hereditary diseases and syndromes; evolutionary medicine; biological gender differences and the evolution of human sexuality; evolution of influenza and HIV; stress and immunosuppression; evolutionary genetics and sexual conflicts; human partner choice and sexual selection; Richard Dawkins and the concepts "selfish genes" and "memes"; evolution of human cooperation; and evolution of human life histories.