Semester 1: Foundations of Sustainability
Get grounded in sustainability’s key environmental, economic, and social pillars while exploring how narratives and systems shape decision-making and how cultural representations impact how people think and act. Gain a broad understanding and critical insight into what counts as sustainable and how experts in these areas think and work on sustainability issues.
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Courses:
- Understanding Sustainable Societies (3 credits)
- Understanding Sustainable Economics (3 credits)
- Understanding Sustainability Science (3 credits)
- Understanding Environmental Humanities (3 credits)
- Methodologies in Interdisciplinarity I (2 credits)
- From Sustainability Issues to Transformation: Zurich Retreat (1 credit)
You will learn:
- A critical grasp of sustainability’s core challenges
- Tools for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary analysis
- Experience applying multiple disciplinary lenses to complex problems
- An understanding of the strengths and limitations of several disciplinary approaches to sustainability
- A critical perspective on the SDGs
- The ability to communicate and collaborate with experts in ecology, culture, governance, and economics on sustainability issues