Courses

You have to take these courses:

Year 1 cohort 2024

• GEO4-2301 Perspectives on Sustainable Development
• GEO4-2331 System Thinking, Scenarios & Indicators for SD
• GEO4-2314 Research Design
• GEO4-2008 Consultancy Project SD & WSM

Year 2 Cohort 2023 & 2024

• Two electives (15 EC)
• GEO4-2343 Master’s Thesis SD (45 EC)

For the complete overview of the programme of cohort 2022, see the Study Guide

Compulsory courses

You have to take these courses (30 EC):

• GEO4-2326 Tools for Energy and Materials Analysis
• GEO4-2338 Squaring the Circular Economy
• GEO4-2312 Energy Supply Technologies
• GEO4-2311 Policies for Energy and Materials Transitions

Compulsory courses

You have to take these courses (30 EC):

• GEO4-2306 Foundations of ESG Research
• GEO4-2332 Governance Theories
• GEO4-2304 Research Strategies ESG
• GEO4-2348 Theories of Change in Action

Compulsory courses

You have to take these courses (30 EC):

• GEO4-2310 Global Environmental Change
• GEO4-2340 Integrated Assessment of Climate Change
• GEO4-2303 Environmental Systems Analysis
• GEO4-2341 Quantifying Ecosystem Resilience to Global Environmental Change

Compulsory courses

You have to take these track courses (30 EC):

• GEO4-2344 Introduction to Political Ecology
• GEO4-2339 Natural Resource Management and Society
• GEO4-2345 Research Methods for PES
• GEO4-2346 Social Innovation and Alternatives to Development

Electives mentioned in the student’s academic progress review in Osiris are pre-approved by the programme leader/ track coordinator and by the Board of Examiners. Students can enroll for those courses via Osiris. It remains the student’s responsibility to make sure that: 

• The course is available to students of your programme;  
• The student fulfills the entrance requirements of the course (if applicable). Actual participation is only possible if students satisfy the course’s entrance conditions; in case of doubt they should contact the course coordinator first;  
• The course is not taught in the same period and timeslot as another course the student has selected. 

If the course is from another department than the Copernicus Institute, it may be that other students have priority and that they are therefore placed on a waiting list.

The application for a non-preapproved elective is done by a written request (application form) to the track coordinator. Written information on the content, the level, and the study load of the course (preferably by means of a copy of the course’s description from the course catalogue) must be attached. The ‘Application Form Elective courses Copernicus’ can be found in the Blackboard community Sustainable Development. If the track coordinator has declared that the elective course(s) meet the criteria, the student sends the signed application form and the course information to the Board of Examiners via Osiris Case. The Board of Examiners takes the final decision on whether or not the elective is approved.