Content

After completing the course, you should be able to:

• recognize reasons for the ongoing biodiversity crisis and its consequences to the human society and personal life
• explore your own connection to nature and diverse values one assigns to it
• recognize a variety of approaches and tools to maintain and enhance biodiversity, and promote sustainable use of biodiversity
• apply expertise from your own field of studies or work and learn how to be part of the solution to the biodiversity crisis

The course consists of six modules:

• Basic knowledge
• Biodiversity crises
• Threats and consequences
• Biodiversity conservation
• Biodiversity then and now
• Reflection

A diverse group of experts in various fields coming from across Europe highlight the key issues of relevance. The focus is on encouraging you to think about biodiversity from your field perspective and personal interests.

Course material

This is part of a Massive Open Online Course ‘Microcredentials in Sustainability’ which can be studied on your own pace. The course material consists of online obligatory and optional literature and videos.

Format: more information

Asynchronous online learning

Completion of the course requires passing the quizzes in their order, as well as completing all H5P-tasks and discussion forum tasks.

Content

After the course, you will understand the mechanisms in which contemporary economic system leads to environmental, social and financial unsustainability. You will be aware of principles and solutions of alternative economic modes, including degrowth and circular economies. You will be able to evaluate critically economic strategies, production structures and governance of businesses and trade in terms of sustainability. You will recognize the methods of analysis and design of sustainable organizations, policies and strategies.
The MOOC, in English, is articulated in 15 modules/lectures.
Each module includes:
•    Three 15 min. video-lectures (45 min. in total)
•    Slides and additional materials
•    Compulsory and voluntary activities for students
Modules' topics:
1.    Economics as a science of social provisioning
2.    Political economy of capitalism – how the system works?
3.    Challenges – where are we now?
4.    Social sustainability
5.    Environmental sustainability
6.    Economic sustainability
7.    Global inequalities and impacts
8.    Existing measures beyond GDP: Happiness and well-being as the main goals of sustainability
9.    Measurement for sustainability – how to construct indicators? Where to look for data?
10.    Energy flows and environmental pressure: stylized facts and data sources
11.    Energy flows and environmental pressure: measurement activities
12.    Designing sustainable organizations and practices
13.    State: public policies and regulations
14.    Grassroots Organizations for Sustainability (unions, governing the commons, cooperatives)
15.    Future of sustainable economic systems

Course material

This is part of a Massive Open Online Course ‘Microcredentials in Sustainability’ which can be studied on your own pace. The course material consists of online literature and videos.

Format: more information

Asynchronous online learning

You are required to follow the full MOOC and watch all videos. You are required to pass the 15 self-examinations short quizzes at the end of each module, and to complete a final exam (multiple-choice).

Content

You will learn about recent artistic responses to issues of sustainability as they have been developed by contemporary visual artists, architects, filmmakers and media professionals, as well as within social movements and activist practices. You will understand the social and political role of images in the ecological crisis and how the arts are more and more involved in developing responses to dominant narratives, or else in developing counter-discourses that might eventually have a deep impact on the collective unconscious and on transnational policies.

The course is based on an interdisciplinary approach at the crossroads of visual studies, cultural studies, contemporary art history, contemporary architecture history, film and media studies, and political theory.

The MOOC, in English, is articulated in 4 units titled "perceptions", "reactions", "productions", and "solutions". Each unit comprises 4 modules, each tackling an essential aspect of that unit’s central theme from a different disciplinary perspective (visual arts, architecture, cinema/media, political history/theory).

Each module includes:

• A 7-8 minute front-view video-lecture

• 5-8 slides including text, images or short videos

Course material

This is part of a Massive Open Online Course ‘Microcredentials in Sustainability’ which can be studied on your own pace. The course material consists of online literature and videos.

Format: more information

Asynchronous online learning

In order to complete the MOOC you are required to follow the full MOOC, which is articulated into 4 units of 4 modules each. Students will be required to pass the 4 self-examinations tests placed at the end each of the 4 units.