Sustainable master courses

Below you will find an overview of all sustainable master courses per faculty. In these courses, (some of) the key themes are sustainability questions and methods to address them.
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.

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

Below you 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
Bias in AI	4	3
Dealing with diversities in care	1 & 2	4
Decolonising diversity in a polarised world	1	6
Diversity in Organisations	1	6
Duurzaamheid, communicatie en media	1	5
Ecological livelihoods and environmental justice	1	6
Entertainment media en welbevinden	2	5
Ethics for AI	1	6
Grassroots initiatives, development and the state	1	6
Law and Technology	1 & 2	6
Media en consumptiecultuur	1	5
Onderwijs en samenleving	3	4
Political Sociology	4	6
Radicalization	1	6
Reflecting and Reporting	4	3
Science and Public Policy	1	3
Science and Societal Interaction	1	3
Social Networks	1	6
The Good Life	2	4
Theorizing Diversities in Care	1 & 2	4
Wetenschapscommunicatie	4	3

Nijmegen School of Management

Course	Period	ECTS
Accouting for Responsible Governance	1	6
A Critical Approach to SHRL	1	6
Cities, Water and Climate Change	2	6
Comparative Spatial Planning and Metropolitan Development	3	6
Curating Waste - Exploring Environmental Justice via Practices of Critical Curating	2	3
Current Perspectives on Responsible Organisation	3	6
Diverse Geographical Political Economies	2	6
Environmental Justice	2	6
Forms of Responsible Organising	3	6
Gender and Diversity in Organisations	1	6
Gender, Conflict and Security	3	6
Geographies of Care: Spaces, subjectivities and solidarity	2	6
Global Governance	3	6
Global Political Economy of Climate Change	3	6
Globalising Cities and Hinterlands	1	6
Inequality & Development	2	6
International Environmental Politics	2	6
International Migration, Globalisation and Development	2	6
Making Sense of Urban Places	3 & 4	6
Organisational Change	1	6
Political Representation and its Challenges: Democracy	1 & 2	6
Political and Geographical Conflict Resolution	2	6
Rethinking Sustainable Economics	1	6
Social, Sustainable and Technological Innovation	3	6
Societal Challenges in Economics	1	6
Sustainability and Societal Transformations	2	6
The Politics of Reform	2	6
Urban Future Lab - Creative Approaches towards Vision and Strategy Building for Regional Transformation	2	6
WEconomy: Exploring Transitional Business and Society Trends	3	6

Faculty of Arts

Course	Period	ECTS
Contemporary Debates	3 & 4	5
Current issues in Transatlantic relations: Power, Principles and Protest	2	5
Impact: Literatuur en mensenrechten	3 & 4	5
Memory: Amnesia, Mourning and Anticipation in (Post-)colonial Literature and Art	3	5
Remaking Tourism: between Theory and Practice	3	5
Sustainable Creativity	1	5
Sustainability in the Fashion Industries	2	5
The Red and Black Atlantic: Transatlantic Constructs of Race, Culture, and Identity	2	5
Representatie: Schrijven over de grenzen heen	1 & 2	5
Working in the Creative Industries	1	5
Ziekte en gezondheid	3	5

Faculty of Science

Course	Period	ECTS
Adaptation Physiology of Animals	1	3
Biodiversity Assessment	1	3
Chemistry and Society	3	3
Ecological and Environmental Concepts	1	3
Energy and Climate	1	6
Energy Modelling	2	3
Environmental and Ecological Modelling	1	3
Environmental Economics for Water Management	2	3
Environmental Ethics	1	3
Environmental Life Cycle Assessment	2	6
Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology	1	3
Exploring Science in Society	2	3
Food and Brain Health	2	3
How Health Systems Work	2	6
Imagining the Anthropocene	1	3
Integrated Water Management	2	3
Management of Ecosystems	1	3
Nature in a Crowded Country	2	3
Orientation in Biology and Environmental Sciences	1	3
Philosophy and Ethics for Computing and Information Science	2	3
Philosophy of Water Management	2	3
Quantitative Conservation Ecology	1	6
Reaching the Sustainable Development Goals	1	6
Social Aspects of Water Management	2	3
Sustainable Innovation Management	1	6
Sustainable Water Management & Global Water Problems	-	3
The Future of Health	1	6
Water Governance and Spatial Planning	2	3

Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies

Course	Period	ECTS
Bio-Ethics for Life Scientists	3	3
Climate Ethics	1 & 2	10
Health Care Humanities Paper	Year	5
Key Concepts in the Philosophy of Law	2	7
Masterseminar in Biopolitics	1 & 2	10
Masterseminar in Science Policy and Values	3 & 4	10
Philosophy of International Law	1	7
Politics of Nature	3 & 4	10
Power in Political Theory	1	6
Public Philosophy	1 & 2	6
Religie en diversiteits-management	1 & 2	5
Religie, culturele diversiteit en overheidsbeleid	1 & 2	5
Work in the 21st Century	3 & 4	6

Faculty of Law

Course	Period	ECTS
Accountability for Human Rights Violations	3 & 4	7
European and Comparative Refugee Law	3 & 4	7
International and European Environmental and Sustainability Law	3 & 4	7
Omgevingsrecht 1	1 & 2	7
Omgevingsrecht 2	3 & 4	7
Protection of Human Rights in International Law	1 & 2	7
Work in the 21st century	1	7