Program Overview

Program Overview

The University of Copenhagen offers a course titled "Risk, Regulation and Governance" (ASRK22006U) as part of its Security Risk Management program. This course is designed for students in the MSc in Security Risk Management and is not available to exchange students.

Course Description

The course focuses on the societal and organizational governance of risks, training students to reflect critically and practically on how to govern, regulate, and control risks. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the legal, economic, informational, and organizational instruments of risk governance, ranging from the broader rationalities of prevalent risk regulation regimes to the concrete tools and forms of intervention used by risk managers to shape individual and collective behavior.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completing the course, students will be able to:

• Master all major theories and fields of research concerned with the regulation and governance of risk.
• Critically discuss the socio-political, organizational, and individual implications of regulatory responses to risk and security threats.
• Conduct comprehensive analysis of the regulatory challenges posed by complex risks and develop appropriate responses.
• Evaluate and combine different regulatory tools and instruments, based on a comprehensive consideration of their relative strengths and weaknesses in relation to specific risks.
• Communicate analysis and conclusions in a systematic and coherent way.
• Assess the efficiency and legitimacy of different tools and institutions in the field of risk regulation.
• Develop and improve regulatory responses to risks and security threats across different levels and fields of governance.

Literature

The course literature is a syllabus of 900 pages set by the lecturer and approved by the Board of Studies.

Teaching and Learning Methods

The course is a combination of classroom lectures, exercises, and discussions.

Workload

The workload for the course is as follows:

• Class Instruction: 28 hours
• Preparation: 112 hours
• Exercises: 45 hours
• Exam Preparation: 20 hours
• Exam: 1 hour
• Total: 206 hours

Assessment

The course is assessed through a home assignment, which is a free written assignment. All aids are allowed, and the marking scale is a 7-point grading scale. The assessment is subject to external censorship.

Re-exam

In the semester in which the course takes place, the re-exam is a free written assignment. In subsequent semesters, the re-exam is also a free written assignment.

Criteria for Exam Assessment

The criteria for achieving the goals are as follows:

• Grade 12 is given for an outstanding performance: the student lives up to the course's goal description in an independent and convincing manner with no or few and minor shortcomings.
• Grade 7 is given for a good performance: the student is confidently able to live up to the goal description, albeit with several shortcomings.
• Grade 02 is given for an adequate performance: the minimum acceptable performance in which the student is only able to live up to the goal description in an insecure and incomplete manner.

Course Information

• Language: English
• Course code: ASRK22006U
• Credit: 7.5 ECTS
• Level: Full Degree Master
• Duration: 1 semester
• Placement: Spring

Study Board

The study board for this course is the Study Board for Security Risk Management.

Contracting Department

The contracting department is the Department of Political Science.

Contracting Faculty

The contracting faculty is the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Course Coordinators

The course coordinator is Anders Esmark.