Understanding Sustainability

Course description

Content

This is a course on the very fundamentals of sustainability and sustainable development, giving eight central perspectives. The overall purpose of the course is to provide BSc students from natural science and social science backgrounds with a roadmap to understand different concepts of sustainability and sustainable development, enabling students to qualify and reflect upon sustainability aspects in their own education and future professional practice from an interdisciplinary perspective. The course is separated into three parts: Part 1 (What is sustainability?), Part 2 (Applications in practice), and Part 3 (Relating to student's own scientific field).

Recommended academic qualifications

It is recommended that students have completed two years of their BSc program. The course is also open to MSc students. Students from all disciplines can participate.