Introduction to Sustainability Science

About this programme

In this course we will view sustainability from many different perspectives to understand the challenges and opportunities of aligning objectives and opportunities for sustainable living. In order to achieve a diverse set of viewpoints your own insights and perspectives will be an important part. This online course consists of a set of video and text-based lectures. A large part of the learning relies on the sharing of insights and reflections of each student during the reading of the course materials. The course allows you to organise your study time very flexibly. It has four parts that are released every two weeks in order to keep all students on a similar topic. This is to facilitate the discussions. However, the required participation for each of the four parts can be done at any time within these two weeks time span. The course is a part-time course and should generally allow you to partake in it even if you have a full time job or studies, provided that you can sacrifice some evening time. A list of the learning outcomes can be found in the syllabus. Please find the link to the syllabus on the right side of this page. After 4 weeks, there will a first home essay based on the topics released. You have one week to finish this home assignment. After 7 weeks into the course you will get the last home essay assignment together with the last part of the course for which you have two weeks to finish. For passing the course, one insight or reflection for each part of the course needs to be written and shared with the other students. The insights/reflections are shared