Global Sustainability (Including Placement Year) BSc (Hons)

<strong>The BSc (Hons) Global Sustainability is a three-year degree, extendable to four with an optional year in placement or abroad.</strong><br/><br/>You’ll become a well-rounded scientist ready to address the biggest challenges facing Planet Earth and its living systems.<br/><br/><strong>WHY THIS COURSE</strong><br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>Add a placement year or study abroad to put your learning into practice, expand your perspective and build confidence in professional or international settings.<br/><br/>You’ll graduate on the path to an interdisciplinary career, ready to help resolve the increasing interconnected global issues across the world.