Man and the Environment
Challenges and sustainable solutions is the motto of the learning trajectory Man and the Environment. The learning trajectory provides you with the knowledge to understand, and the skills to analyse, relationships between man and the environment. After having completed the trajectory, you are able to assess environmental problems and evaluate with sustainable solutions. The trajectory prepares you for a job in environmental, water and nature research and management, in particular as a scientist (at universities, research institutes or industries), consultant, manager or policy maker at local, regional and (inter-)national agencies, or a researcher/advisor at non-governmental organisations.
You will be prepared for this type of job by learning to understand the mechanisms underlying environmental issues, and to analyse environmental problems and evaluate sustainable solutions using the universal cause-effect chain (drivers, pressures, state, impact, response).
Coordinator: Jan Hendriks. During his sabbatical Aafke Schipper is Jan's backup until 01-Sep-2022
The table below shows which courses are part of the learning trajectory Man and the Environment.
| General Phase (first 6 quarters, mandatory for all learning trajectories) | ||
| Course | Period | Type of course |
| NWI-BP012C Statistics 1 (3 EC) | Year 1, Q1 | general, mandatory |
| NWI-BP030 Ecology (6 EC) | Year 1, Q3 | general, mandatory |
| NWI-BP031 Genomics and Big Data (6 EC) | Year 1, Q3 | general, mandatory |
| NWI-BP024C Mathematics for Biologists (3 EC) | Year 1, Q4 | general, mandatory |
| NWI-BP027B Biodiversity (6 EC) | Year 1, Q4 | general, mandatory |
| NWI-BB071B Man and Environment (3 EC) | Year 2, Q2 | general, mandatory |
| NWI-FCEM02B Writing about Science (3 EC) | Year 2, Q2 | general, mandatory |
| Differentiation Phase | ||
| NWI-MB023C Man and Nature: Present, Past and Future (6 EC) | Year 2, Q3 | Core |
| NWI-BB018C Ecophysiology of Plants (6 EC) | Year 2, Q3 | elective |
| NWI-BB093 Statistics 2 (3 EC) | Year 2, Q3 | general, mandatory |
| NWI-BB060B Animal Ecology (6 EC) | Year 2, Q4 | elective |
| NWI-MB021B Geographic Information Systems (6 EC) | Year 2, Q4 | Core |
| NWI-FFIL100 Philosophy & Ethics of Science (3 EC) | Year 2, Q4 | general, mandatory |
| NWI-BB083B Ecological Theory and Data Analysis (6 EC) | Year 3, Q1 | elective |
| NWI-BB096 Meta-analysis for Biologists (6 EC) | not offered in 20-21 | not offered in 20-21 |
| NWI-BB095 Introduction to R programming in Biology (3 EC) | Year 3, Q1 | elective |
| NWI-BB079C Water, Health and Development (3 EC) | Year 3, Q2 | elective |
| NWI-GCSE001 Climate Change: Science and Policy (3 EC) | Year 3, Q1 | elective |
| NWI-MB024C Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (6 EC) | Year 3, Q2 | elective |
| NWI-BB088 Biological Invasions (6 EC) | Year 3, Q2 | elective |
| NWI-BB036B Applied Ecology (6 EC) | Year 3, Q3 | elective |
| NWI-MOL054 Toxicology(6 EC) | Year 3, Q3 | elective |
| NWI-BB099 Biology Essay (3 EC) | Year 3, Q3 | general, mandatory |
| NWI-BB-STAGE Bachelor Internship (12 EC) | Year 3, Q4 | general, mandatory |
| NWI-BB076B Bachelor Portfolio (3 EC) | Year 3, Q4 | general, mandatory |