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Unit name: International Trade (new 3rd year unit launched in 22/23), Summer Dissertation (MSc Economics, Finance, and Management) How is sustainability included in these units? How did you decide what was appropriate? At first glance, this unit might not obviously link to sustainability. Indeed, not all ...
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Read the full series Programme Name: Geography How is sustainability included in the program?   There was never a concerted, centralised effort to include sustainability into the curriculum in Geography, but it has emerged as a major theme throughout the programme due to its inescapable relevance ...
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Read the full series School: Biological Sciences  Program: Biology   Units: Ecology (2ndYear), Conservation Biology (2ndYear), Final Year Project (BSc and MSci)  How is sustainability included in these units? How did you decide what was appropriate?  In Ecology, I took over an existing unit and reframed ...
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Read the full series School: Interdisciplinary (based in Geography)   Unit name: Sustainable Development   What is the unit and what does it cover?   It’s an interdisciplinary open unit which takes a challenge-focussed approach to teaching the UN’s SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). The main body of the ...
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Read the full series Unit name: Climate Emergency. New third year unit taught for the first time in 20/21. What is the unit and what does it cover?   The unit covers an introduction to the climate emergency, its causes, impacts, and how society needs to ...
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Read the full series Programme name: PGCE What is the program (PGCE) and what does it cover?  PGCE, or Postgraduate Certificate in Education, is a postgraduate secondary teacher training course. Our students are divided into separate subject specialisms (e.g., Geography, Maths, English) and they spend ...
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Read the full series Focus: How the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are embedded in teaching. How is sustainability included in it? How did you decide what was appropriate?  We teach the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as part of sustainability reporting, as global standards ...
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Read the full series Unit names: US Foreign Policy, Politics of Human Rights, Thinking Politically, Climate Crisis and International Security (Masters)  How is sustainability included in these units?   Sustainability is weaved into all these units through the inclusion of a variety of relevant discussion topics, ...
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Read the full series Programme: Civil Engineering How is sustainability included in it? Most of the design work in the programme is iterative rather than transformative, with sustainability teaching emerging organically from the content. We don't have a sustainability stream or pathway or teaching group ...
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Read the full series Program: English MA  Units: Diverse Perspectives, Critical Animal Studies, Writing in the Elements Full   What do these units cover?   The units cover a range of topics. In the case of ‘Diverse Perspectives’, only some of this unit is on sustainability. For ...
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A case study describing collaboration, pedagogy and design of the Sustainable Development optional unit, an interdisciplinary blended learning 20cp unit taken by up to 300 students a year. ...
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Introducing the new Sustainability Department Champion role. ...
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Case study reflecting on a first year unit focused on developing employability skills for Accounting and Finance students ...
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Case study reflecting on a masters unit focused on developing employability and sustainability skills for marketing students ...
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