Sustainable Development BA/BSc(Hons)

Facts about this course

Year of entry 2010
Type BA/BSc(Hons)
Modules Module Listing
UCAS DK44 3 years full-time
DK4K 4 years sandwich
H220 4/5 years full-time including foundation year

About this course

Why choose this course?

If you are keen to help improve the future for our planet and its people, this course is an ideal choice. You will study people and societies and their interactions with the planet’s resources. As well as evaluating current practice, you will explore alternative solutions to development so that good living standards are achieved without damaging the Earth’s environments and resources.

What will you study?

Early stages of the course provide a broad coverage of the Earth’s environments, people and cultures. You then gain a more in-depth understanding of ecological principles and how they apply to environmental management, studying political and cultural influences on development processes. In Year 3 you can choose modules in areas such as policy, economics, development, conservation and resource management.

Module listing

Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. Those listed here may also be a mixture of core and optional modules.

Year 1

  • Sustainable Development: Issues and Concepts
  • Understanding the Environment
  • Geographies of People and Culture
  • Projects in Practice (Sustainability)
  • Business Management
  • Economics
  • Investigating the Earth and Environment 1
  • Investigating the Earth and Environment 2

Year 2

  • Culture, Place and Society
  • Political Economy of Globalisation
  • Ecology: Principles and Practice
  • Planning and the Environment
  • Environmental Management: Tools and Methodologies
  • Data Collection and Analysis
  • Project Design and Management
  • Option modules

Year 3

  • Achieving a Sustainable Future
  • Global Environments: Strategic Assessment (Developing World Field Study) OR
  • Sustainability at Work
  • Sustainable Cities
  • Research Project

 

 

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Location

This course is taught at Penrhyn Road


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