Knowledge and Methods
Course content
The course introduces students to state-of-the-art methods used to assess and manage risks, as well as the broader methodological questions they raise. The course provides students with the tools needed to produce and evaluate knowledge used in security risk management processes critically and reflexively. It trains the ability to estimate the validity and reliability of knowledge-based interventions and evaluate the performance of actors and agencies dealing with complex and compound risk and security challenges. On the level of methods, this includes the use of general scientific approaches to the collection and interpretation of data (quantitative and qualitative), as well as methods developed more specifically for purposes of risk assessment and management. A particular focus point is the use of new technology and software enabling collection and analysis of larger sets of data. On the methodological level, the course covers the analytical, practical and political implications of different research strategies and social science traditions, with a special focus on complex controversies concerning risk and security issues. The course combines general introduction to these issues with hands-on exercises. Students will be required to apply various methods to specific threats and knowledge pools, and to communicate their approach and findings.
Security Risk Management
Only open for students from MSc in Security Risk
Management
Knowledge:
- account for general and specific methods relevant to the production and evaluation of knowledge about risk and security.
- critically discuss the broader research strategies and traditions relevant to security risk management.
Skills:
- select relevant methods and tools of risk assessment and management in relation to specific tasks.
- evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of methods and research strategies, as well as the reliability, validity, precision and relevance of various forms of data and information.
Competences:
- independently identify and improve the knowledge base for critical decisions about security risks.
- develop and implement solutions based on the best available evidence in complex and changing security environments.
The course is a combination of classroom lectures, exercises and discussions.
Course literature is a syllabus of 900 pages.
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 completion of work on the data and oral presentation of the results, to be approved by the lecturer.
- Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- passed/not passed
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
The exam and re-sit 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 re-sit 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
- ASRK22004U
- 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
- Jonathan Luke Austin (3-6d6f64436c6976316e7831676e)
Timetable
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