Global Sustainability (Including Placement Year)

The BSc (Hons) Global Sustainability is a three-year degree, extendable to four with an optional year in placement or abroad.

You’ll become a well-rounded scientist ready to address the biggest challenges facing Planet Earth and its living systems.

WHY THIS COURSE

The BSc (Hons) Global Sustainability gives you an interdisciplinary approach that lets you harness world-leading expertise from across the University and develop the tools to improve humanity’s future.

You’ll study the relationships between the environment, human cultures and values, and tackle the interacting climate, biodiversity and nature crises as well as pollution, inequality and social injustice.

You’ll expand your learning beyond life sciences to your choice of economics, philosophy, psychology, sociology and politics taught by internationally recognised experts in their fields.

You’ll also have the opportunity to join our ongoing work with governmental, non-governmental and commercial partners with impact at local (e.g. Colchester Oyster Fishery), national (e.g. CEFAS) and international (e.g. Mars Corporation) scales.

Add a placement year or study abroad to put your learning into practice, expand your perspective and build confidence in professional or international settings.

You’ll graduate on the path to an interdisciplinary career, ready to help resolve the increasing interconnected global issues across the world.