Anthropogenic climate change and associated global environmental challenges pose profound questions for the future of human and non-human life. What futures might climate change bring, as environmental crises intersect and overlap with other global challenges? Amid loss and damage, what futures might be desirable and possible? And how can we cultivate sustainable futures given global inequalities, vulnerabilities, and unequal capacities?
This degree responds to the profound challenge of developing ‘sustainable futures’ in the context of a changing climate. Your learning will focus on both a) understanding the relations between climate change and society, and b) exploring and evaluating alternatives and experiments across the globe that aim to create sustainable futures from within intersecting environmental crises.
You’ll learn about how climate change is profoundly affecting societies and is being responded to across the globe, in the wider context of efforts to generate sustainable futures (for example, through the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals). You will also develop a series of research skills and gain experience of working with partners, alongside the leadership, engagement and communication skills necessary to help you contribute to global efforts to enhance environmental sustainability.
Teaching on this course introduces you to the fundamentals of climate change, social and political responses to climate change, its intersection with urbanisation and how these make sustainability challenging in a range of contexts. Through guided and independent work, you will gain advanced training in research skills and techniques, learn skills of leadership, engagement and dissemination and design and execute an extended piece of student-led research on a problem or challenge at the intersection of climate change and society.
Teaching on this course introduces you to the fundamentals of climate change, social and political responses to climate change, its intersection with urbanisation and how these make sustainability challenging in a range of contexts. Through guided and independent work, you will gain advanced training in research skills and techniques, learn skills of leadership, engagement and dissemination and design and execute an extended piece of student-led research on a problem or challenge at the intersection of climate change and society.
To learn more about the qualifications we typically accept, please select your country from the drop-down menu below. Please also consult the standard UK entry requirements for subject-specific requirements which apply to all applicants.
Postgraduate Taught
The Diplomë Universitare alone is not considered to be sufficient preparation for postgraduate study. We require either the Diplomë e Nivelittë Pare (Bachelor (First Level (University) Diploma/Bachelor's degree), the Master Shkencave (Master of Science), or the Kandidat i Shkencave (Candidate of Sciences) with an overall mark of ≥9.0/10.0 from an ASCAL accredited institution.
Postgraduate Research
Candidates require both a Diplomë e Nivelittë Dytë (Second Level (University) Diploma) and a Bachelor's degree from ASCAL accredited institutions. The Bachelor's degree should have an overall mark of ≥9.0/10.0.
To ensure you can make the most of the exceptional learning experience we offer, it’s important that you are able to demonstrate the level of English language proficiency required for your chosen course.
English language requirements
Students holding the following qualifications can be considered for entry to Postgraduate Taught programmes:
To ensure you can make the most of the exceptional learning experience we offer, it’s important that you are able to demonstrate the level of English language proficiency required for your chosen course.
English language requirements
Postgraduate Taught
Applicants require a Bátxelor from the Universitat d’Andorra with a grade of ≥8.5/10.
Qualifications awarded from the private institutions Humanium International University, Universitat Carlemany, Universitas Europea IMF and University Oberta la Salle, the latter for the period 2010-2021 only, will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Postgraduate Research
Candidates require a Bátxelor and a Máster , grades as Postgraduate Taught.
To ensure you can make the most of the exceptional learning experience we offer, it’s important that you are able to demonstrate the level of English language proficiency required for your chosen course.
English language requirements
Students holding the following qualifications can be considered for entry to Postgraduate Taught programmes: