Liberal Arts and Science: Environmental and Sustainability Science
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The Major Environmental and Sustainability Sciences (ESS) concentrates on the interactions and interdependencies between human activities and the environment. It has a strong focus on sustainability, understood as a question of balancing environmental, social, and economic objectives. In the Major Environmental and Sustainability Sciences (ESS), students explore human beings and their interactions with the environment for more sustainability. ESS students engage in scientific work related to contemporary environmental issues (e.g. climate change, biodiversity loss, food production, energy supply) while being introduced to research methods in the Environmental and Sustainability Sciences. The starting point is foundational knowledge acquisition in the Environmental and Sustainability Sciences in the basic modules. Later on, students expand and apply this knowledge in the profiling modules and Electives. The profiling modules provide students with specialization opportunities, e.g. in questions of sustainable resource use, energy supply, and/or environmental governance. The ESS Major takes a holistic approach and includes a variety of interrelated disciplines with a strong focus on the goals of sustainable development. In this context, sustainability is defined in terms of how to balance environmental, social, and economic objectives. Within the LAS program, this encompassing approach also provides the opportunity to participate in joint interdisciplinary courses and projects with students from the other majors. The ESS curriculum thus includes courses that familiarize students with qualitative and quantitative methods and enable them to conduct their first research project in the sciences.
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Freiburg im Breisgau
Germany
- Full Time
- On Campus Learning
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- Bachelors
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