Organization and Risk
Course content
The course introduces students to the organizational context and conditions of security risk management. While risk management has always been intrinsically related to questions of organizational survival and success, a pivotal feature of current society is the increasing pervasiveness and societal importance of organizational attempts to manage risk and security threats. The course takes up this organizational encounter with risk and focuses on issues such as organizations and their risk environment, organizational crisis, the interplay of security and operational risk, the pursuit of organizational reliability and resilience, systems and standards of risk management, as well questions of accountability and organizational performance. The course combines a theoretical approach to these issues with a case-based approach.
Throughout the course, representatives from different organizations (public and private) will present cases comprising specific challenges of security risk management, based on which the students will be asked to provide analysis and recommendations.
Security Risk Management
Only open for students from MSc in Security Risk
Management
Knowledge:
- master core ideas, concepts and theories about the organizational context and conditions of risk management in current society.
- identify and critically discuss the issues, problems and challenges facing organizations in an environment increasingly defined by risk and security threats.
Skills:
- conduct comprehensive organizational analysis and diagnose the problems and potentials related to the exercise of security risk management in different organizations.
- evaluate different approaches to risk management and their appropriateness, depending on setting and organization.
- communicate analysis and conclusions in a systematic and coherent way.
Competences:
- improve responses to risks and security threats in both public and private organizations.
- independently develop solutions that take both the strategic objectives and societal consequences of organizational risk management into account.
The course is a combination of classroom lectures, casework and discussions.
Course literature is a syllabus of 4-500 pages and the case material included in the casework
When registered you will be signed up for exam.
- Full-degree students – sign up at Selfservice on KUnet
The dates for the exams are found here Exams – Faculty of Social Sciences - University of Copenhagen (ku.dk)
Please note that it is your own responsibility to check for overlapping exam dates.
- ECTS
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
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Home assignment
- Type of assessment details
- The examination is a five-day written assignment. See the section regarding examination in the program curriculum for more information on guidelines and scope.
- Examination prerequisites
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Eligibility for the exam is premised on the completion of all casework during the course, to be approved by the lecturer.
- Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- passed/not passed
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
The exam and resit exam are assessed by an internal examiner
- Re-exam
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In the semester where the course takes place: Free written assignment.
The re-sit exam is a free assignment.
See the section regarding examination in the program curriculum for more information on guidelines and scope.
Criteria for exam assessment
The exam and resit exam are assessed by an internal examiner as pass/fail.
- Category
- Hours
- Class Instruction
- 28
- Preparation
- 112
- Exercises
- 45
- Exam Preparation
- 20
- Exam
- 1
- English
- 206
Kursusinformation
- Language
- English
- Course number
- ASRK22003U
- ECTS
- 7,5 ECTS
- Programme level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
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1 semester
- Placement
- Autumn
- Studyboard
- Study Board for Security Risk Management
Contracting department
- Department of Political Science
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Social Sciences
Course Coordinator
- Karl Schütze (6-756976353833426b6875306d7730666d)
Timetable
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