Program Overview

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Course Overview

The course AG1152, Safety in the making, is a 7.5 credit course that explores the ways in which individuals' age, gender, ethnic background, and identity interact with each other to create barriers and obstacles to safety. The course critically examines theories about crime and environments to build knowledge that leads to more informed actions for planning safe and sustainable environments.

Course Description

A safe environment enables one of the most fundamental individual needs – the need of an individual to feel safe. The fear and risk of becoming a crime victim is a threat against such a basic human right. This course looks at the ways in which individuals' characteristics interact with each other to create barriers and obstacles to safety. Certain individuals and groups in society are more vulnerable to crime than others, and certain locations are more likely to be crime targets than others. Specific physical and social environmental characteristics are identified and studied for these locations.

Course Objectives

The course deals with issues of crime and safety from an interdisciplinary perspective with a focus on situational perspectives tailored to students in urban planning, criminology, and landscape architecture, geography, sociology, as well as practitioners in municipalities, consultants, crime prevention organizations, and the police.

Course Format

Half of the course opportunities are online/virtual and half on site (KTH main campus). The course uses "blended learning" in three different ways: combining online digital media with traditional face-to-face contact, using both English and Swedish literature, and basing the course on both academic and practical knowledge.

Information per Course Offering

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Course Syllabus

The course syllabus is available in an accessible format on this page.

Content and Learning Outcomes

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Intended Learning Outcomes

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Literature and Preparations

Specific Prerequisites

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Literature

Information about course literature can be found in the course memo for the course offering or in the course room in Canvas.

Examination and Completion

Grading Scale

The grading scale is A, B, C, D, E, FX, F.

Examination

• INL1 - Hand-in assignment, 3.0 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
• PRO1 - Project, 3.0 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
• TEN1 - Written exam, 1.5 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Based on recommendation from KTH's coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

Further Information

Course Room in Canvas

Registered students can find further information about the implementation of the course in the course room in Canvas.

Offered by

The course is offered by ABE/Urban and Regional Studies.

Main Field of Study

The main field of study is Technology.

Education Cycle

The education cycle is First cycle.

Examiner

The examiner is Vania Ceccato.

Ethical Approach

• All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
• In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
• In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.