Sustainable bachelor courses

Below you will find an overview of all sustainable bachelor courses per faculty. In these courses, (some of) the key themes are sustainability questions and methods to address them. These courses could potentially form the basis for your sustainability testimony .

Please note that some courses have entry requirements. Please consult the study guide carefully before registering for a course and contact the teacher or study advisor if you are not sure whether you can take a course.

Please note that the list of courses on Osiris is leading regarding the sustainability testimony. Please carefully read the conditions to see if and how you can achieve this testimony.

During the third period, the interdisciplinary courses Climate Crisis (FTR-FTR201) , Sustainable Development Goals (MAN-BKV06) and Post-Fossil Change in Industrial Regions (NWI-FMT031) take place. All bachelor students can follow these courses, regardless of their study background.

Directly to:
> Faculty of Social Sciences
> Nijmegen School of Management
> Faculty of Arts
> Faculty of Science
> Faculty of Medical Sciences
> Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies
> Faculty of Law

Below you will find an overview of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). When a course covers 4 or more SDGs, this is indicated by a circle. Read more about the SDGs and what each SDG entails here .
A case is made for the 18th SDG on animal health, welfare and rights. Read more on this 18 ^th SDG here .

all SDGs

Faculty of Social Sciences

course	Period	ECTS
Actualiteit en debat	4	2
Adolescence: Chances and Risks	3	4
Adulthood and Ageing: Chances and Risks	4	4
Contemporary Debates	2	6
Conscious and Unconscious Processes	2	6
Cultural diversity and inequality	3	6
Cyberpsychology: Psychology of digital environments and social media	3	6
Development & Mental Health 2	1	4
Development & Mental Health 3	1	6
Eating behaviour	3	6
Early Developm-ent: Chances and Risks	2	4
Evolutionary Fondations of Behaviour	3	4
Fear, Anxiety and Related Disorders	4	4
Gender and Diversity: Policies and Practices	4	6
Gender, Migration and Religion: The Other in contemporary societies	4	4
Gender, power and boundaries	2	3
Gifts, debt and reciprocity	3	6
Global Sex: The Travels of Desires, Identities, and Politics in a Globalizing World	4	5
Great thinkers and key concepts	1	6
Individuen en hun sociale omgeving: de micro-macrolink	2	6
Inleiding orthopedagogiek	3	4
Inleiding Sociologie	1	6
Interpersonal Relationships	2	4
Intimacy, Emotions and Cultural Diversity	2	6
Introduction to Educational Sciences	2	4
Intergroup Relations from a Multicultural Perspective	3	4
Introducing Gender Theories	3	6
Introduction CAOS 1	1	6
Introduction CAOS 2	2	3
Leefstijlen: over seksualiteit, cultuur en media	1	6
Legal and Ethical Context	2	4
Social prejudice	2	6
Markets-in-Development	3	6
Materiality, identity and nature	1	6
MediaContent	2	4
Media, Entertainment & Culture	4	5
Perfect Self(ie): Gender+ en de wereld van het ideale Zelf	1	5
Philosophy of Science	4	3
Political Change and Opposition	4	6
Politiek van verwantschap	2	6
Prevention in Mental Health	2	4
Psychology of Happiness	3	6
Psychology of Sexuality	4	4
Religion and Spirituality	2	6
School en maatschappij	1	3
Sex for the Social Sciences and Humanities: An Introduction to Socio-Cultural Sexuality Studies	1	5
Social Capital: from ambiguity towards two research lines	4	6
Social Influence	4	4
Social inequality	3	6
Societal Impact of AI	1	6
Theorizing Diversity: Inclusion and Exclusion in Contemporary Society	3	5
Two Centuries of Sex. A History of Sexuality in Europe, 1800-2000	2	5

Nijmegen School of Management

course	Period	ECTS
Accounting for Sustainable Societies	3	6
Approaches to Space and Environment	1	6
Behavioural and Experimental Economics	3	6
Behavioural and Experimental Finance	3	6
Borders and Identities in Europe	1	6
Comparative Politics: Democratisation	3	6
Conflict and Governance in Africa	4	6
Corporate Sustainability Information & Decision making	4	6
Sustainable business	1	6
Economic Development	3	6
Economics and Sustainable Development	1	6
Environment and Society	3	6
Factor Earth	2	6
Filosofie van Managementwetenschappen	4	6
Gender in Organisations	3	6
Globalizing Worlds	1 & 2	6
Good Governance	3	6
History of Economics	1 & 2	6
Introduction to conflict analysis	2	6
Introduction to conflict analysis and management	2	6
International Business Ethics	3	6
Lokale uitdagen	4	6
Migration and Society	3	6
Natural Resources, Conflict and Governance	3	6
Negotiation and Peacemaking	3	6
Politiek en bestuur	2	6
Politics, Ethics and Practice	4	6
Politics, Power and Gender	2	6
Postcolonial and Decolonial Encounters	2	6
Project Responsible Organization 1: Sustainable Entrepreneurship	3&4	6
Project Responsible Organization 1: Sustainable Entrepreneurship	3&4	6
Project Responsible Organization 2: Business Analysis for Responsible Organization	3&4	6
Law and Institutions of Environmental and Spatial Policy	1 & 2	6
Spatial Transformations	2	6
Space and Environment in the European Union	1	6
Sustainable Development Goals	3	3
Sustainable Pathways	1	6
Sustainable Intervention Methods	3	6
Happiness Economics	2	6

Faculty of Arts

course	Period	ECTS
Banished, deported, sold: Forced migrations in global history. 1600-present	3	5
Beyond Britishness: the Construction of Identities in Literature and Culture	3 & 4	5
City culture	2	5
Crossing Borders in the Hispanic World	3 & 4	5
De francofone Afrikaanse roman (in vertaling)	2	5
Environmental History	4	5
From word to sentence	3 & 4	5
Gender and the Arts	4	5
Gender en de kunsten	4	5
Globalisering	1	5
Het veranderende landchap: kunst, architectuur en klimaatverandering	1	5
Health communications	2	5
Indigenous Studies in the United States and Canada	1 & 2	5
Identiteit in de Oudheid	3 & 4	5
La cultura de los derechos humanos en el mundo hispánico*	3 & 4	5
Research Seminar: Identity and Cultural Diversity	3 & 4	5
Representatie in de Nederlandstalige Literatuur	3 & 4	5
Struggles of Identity in the Hispanic World	1 & 2	5
Social interaction in times of climate crisis	3 & 4	5
Quête identitaire dans la culture populaire	1	5
Voortleven van de oudheid in de moderne tijd	1 & 2	5
Van woord tot zin	3 & 4	5

Faculty of Science

course	Period	ECTS
Animal Ecology	4	6
Applied and Environmental Microbiology	3	6
applied ecology	3	6
Biodiversity	4	6
Biological invasions	2	6
Chemistry and Physics of the Atmosphere	2	3
Chemistry and Society	3	3
Climate Change: Science & Policy	2	3
Debating Science: Introduction to Science in Society	2	3
Ecology	3	6
Ecophysiology of Plants	3	6
Energy and Sustainability	2	3
Exploring Science in Society	2	3
Genomics for Health and Environment	1	12
Geographic Information Systems	4	6
Human and Ecological Risk Assessment	2	6
Man and Environment	2	3
Man and Nature: Present, Past and Future	3	6
Mathematical Models for Population Dynamics	4	3
Design of Education in Science	2	6
Panorama Science and Society	4	6
Population and Evolutionary Biology	4	6
Philoso-phy and Ethics for Computing and Informa-tion Science	1	6
Post-Fossil Change in Industrial Regions	2	3
sustainable chemistry	4	3
sustainable chemistry 2	3	3
Systems Ecology	1	6

Faculty of Medical Sciences

course	Period	ECTS
Assessment of surgical innovation	1 & 2	12
Challenges of a future healthy healthcare system	1 & 2	12
Control of Infectious Diseases	1 & 2	12
Global health & infectious diseases	1 & 2	12
Planetary Health	4	2
Sustainable healthcare improvement: principles and practice	1 & 2	12

Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religion Studies

course	Period	ECTS
Climate Crisis	3 & 4	6
Critique of Green Ideology	1 & 2	5
Ecophilosophy in the Anthropocene	1 & 2	5
Ethics of Digitalization and AI	4	5
Feminist Classics	1	5
Forms of Democracy: a Comparative Approach	2	5
Gender, multiculturalism and religion	3 & 4	5
Gender, Sexuality and Intersectionality	3	5
Global Distributive Justice: an introduction	1 & 2	5
In Pursuit of Well-Being	1	6
Intercultural Philosophy	1	5
IPS in Europa II: Activisme, Recht en Beleid	4	5
IPS in the ME III: State and Diversity	1	5
Planet and Politics: Climate Change and Sustainability in Context	1 & 2	5
Political Ecology	1 & 2	5
Religie, Macht en Identiteit	2	5
Sociale en Politieke Filosofie	2	5
Surveillance Society	2	5

Faculty of Law

course	Period	ECTS
Agricultural Law	1 & 2	8
Etnisch-religieuze conflicten in Europa en het Midden-Oosten	1	5
Fundamental Rights in Europe	1 & 2	4
Inleiding onderwijswetenschappen	2	4
Institutional Law of the EU	1 & 2	6
Integratievak: Economie & Jaarekeningrecht	3 & 4	4
Juridische en ethische context	2	4
Philosophy of law	3 & 4	5
Philosophy of law in an EU perspective	3 & 4	4