Global Environmental and Sustainability Studies BSc

Bachelor GESS: Studying with an international perspective and in an international environment

Sustaina­bi­li­ty ques­ti­ons are of­ten glo­bal and re­qui­re so­lu­ti­ons which must be dis­co­ve­r­ed and de­ve­l­o­ped trans­na­tio­nal­ly. It is this out­look that our in­ter­na­tio­nal­ly-ori­en­ted de­gree pro­gram­me Glo­bal En­vi­ron­men­tal and Sustaina­bi­li­ty Stu­dies is ba­sed on. All cour­ses in this ma­jor are taught in Eng­lish. You will be stu­dy­ing with stu­dents from many dif­fe­rent coun­tries and en­coun­ter pro­fes­sors with a wide va­rie­ty of cul­tu­ral back­grounds.

During the first semesters, you will attend the lectures together with students of our more nationally orientated major “Umweltwissenschaften (Environmental Science)” because both programmes are closely interlinked.

As a stu­dent of the ma­jor Glo­bal En­vi­ron­men­tal and Sustaina­bi­li­ty Stu­dies, you will ex­plo­re the cur­rent sustaina­bi­li­ty chal­len­ges from the point of view of dif­fe­rent di­sci­pli­nes, such as so­cio­lo­gy, eco­lo­gy and eco­no­my to achie­ve a ho­lis­tic un­der­stan­ding of the pro­blems at hand. You will de­ve­lop a firm know­ledge-base in the so­ci­al and na­tu­ral sci­en­ces and learn to ap­p­ly tools and me­thods from both fiel­ds. To do this, you will be working with mo­dels and sta­tis­tics, but also spen­ding time in the lab and out­doors or with part­ners from the dif­fe­rent fiel­ds in ques­ti­on.