Global Development and Sustainability BSc (Hons)

**Explore contemporary global challenges and become a skilled professional who is ready to promote and implement sustainable development.**<br/>- Learn to understand complex global challenges including sustainability, climate change, hazards, disasters, development and urbanisation.<br/><br/><br/>- Broaden your experience through optional work placements and international field trips to destinations such as Italy and Spain.<br/><br/><br/>- Develop the knowledge and transferable skills needed for a wide range of careers or postgraduate study.<br/><br/><br/>Our Global Development and Sustainability degree is designed to help you to develop the knowledge and skills needed to manage the challenges and opportunities of sustainable development in a variety of contexts. <br/><br/>You’ll explore a wide array of topics including climate change, hazards and disasters, cities and urbanisation, global development and education, environmental justice and migration.<br/><br/>Your core studies will focus on key themes and skills in geography and global development, and youll be able to choose optional modules from a range of relevant subject areas such as geography, sociology, education, business and management, history and politics.<br/><br/>You’ll be taught by our team of expert lecturers who specialise in topics such as resource extraction and indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon, adaptation to climate change in Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bhutan, long term environmental change in Siberia and Alaska, displacement and migration in Mexico and Guatemala, and public engagement with climate change and sustainability in the UK.