This module offers an overall framework for understanding, analyzing and solving regional environmental problems, using the Baltic Sea as a case study. The students will gain understanding about the causal interactions between the human and natural system:
The students will learn central concepts and tools from relevant disciplines (natural sciences, environmental economics, and social sciences) needed in the analysis of sustainable marine management and governance. The student will learn to work as a group to access collective intelligence and multidisciplinary balanced view to marine management.
Having completed the study module each student will
In addition to these competences and skills, each student will have had the opportunity to deepen her/his understanding of food as an issue of sustainability through the choices of elective courses.
The aim is to introduce students to the basics of urban ecology and to help them become aware of the impacts of urbanisation on nature, the world and human beings. Both theoretical and practical courses will prepare the student to meet urbanization challenges, such as ecosystem degradation, policy issues, and management and planning. After completion, the student will be able to identify urban environmental/social problems, and have the toolkit to meet these challenges and solve the problems with other interested parties.
Indigenous studies gives you an opportunity to broaden your knowledge of indigenous peoples in a global approach. It covers the following thematic, methodological, and theoretical competences: indigenous research methods and ethics; indigenous languages and education; biocultural diversity, indigenous arts, and indigenous rights. The courses introduce to indigenous philosophies and concepts providing with new insights into epistemologies, power relations, as well as historical and contemporary perspectives in indigenous studies. Using innovative teaching methods, you learn about indigenous peoples’ knowledge-making processes, which are interactive and represent lived experience and detailed observations by many generations. Indigenous studies can benefit students planning careers in policymaking, environment and sustainability sector, education, social work, health care, law, economy, museums, and various areas of culture.
After completing the thematic module of Climate Change Studies, students will master basics of physical, ecological and social phenomena of climate change. Depending on the amount and selection of optional courses, the student will also be able to:
With this module students may acquaint themselves with