Sustainability education at Lund University
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We aim to provide all of our students with perspectives on sustainability that are relevant to their subject. Solving sustainability crises requires a variety of perspectives, and we believe that each academic field has a crucial role to play.
As Sweden's most comprehensive university, we offer a diverse education in sustainability, covering different aspects. Many of our courses are part of structured degree programmes, but our students can also take stand-alone courses or design their own programme.
All our regular courses and programmes use ECTS credits, with 1.5 credits corresponding to one week of full-time study.
Note that the course and programme links on this page may take you to content on webpages outside this website (lunduniversity.lu.se), e.g. the Swedish counterpart of this website – lu.se – faculty and department websites, and joint programme websites. The linked content may be in English or Swedish.
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Contact information
Ann Åkerman\ Coordinator at Lund University Sustainability Forum\ ann [dot] akerman [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (ann[dot]akerman[at]lucsus[dot]lu[dot]se)
Telephone:\ +46 (0)46 222 80 81
Featured programmes
The programmes below cover a wide range of subjects and interests. Most of them are interdisciplinary.
Programmes taught in English:
- Environmental Management and Policy
- Environmental Studies and Sustainability Studies
- European and International Trade and Tax Law
- Human Rights Studies
- Public Health
- Performing Arts as Critical Practice
Programmes taught in Swedish:
- Applied Climate Strategy (Tillämpad klimatstrategi)
- Environmental Engineering (Civilingenjörsutbildning i ekosystemteknik)
New Master's programme
This new programme provides tools and strategies to tackle climate change together with society.
X-courses
X-courses are short, flexible, credit-bearing courses. Several of them focus on sustainability or cover important aspects of sustainability.
MOOCs in sustainability
The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) offers a range of popular Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) focusing on sustainability:
- Dispelling Myths about Sustainable Consumption
- 1.5° Lifestyles: Mainstreaming Everyday Sustainability
- Circular Economy: Sustainable Materials Management
- Cities, Climate and Change: Pathways and Opportunities
- Cities and Consumption: Urban Sustainability and the Sharing Economy
- Greening the Economy: Lessons from Scandinavia
- Greening the Economy: Sustainable Cities
- Urban Nature: Connecting Cities, Sustainability and Innovations
- Urban Climate Governance: Towards 1.5° Celsius Alignment
More about the sustainability MOOCs – iiiee.lu.se
Another MOOC offered by Lund University introduces key terms and concepts in sustainability science that are relevant to everyone, regardless of their work or field of interest:
Working for a sustainable future: concepts and approaches – coursera.org
Note that MOOCs cannot be included in a formal degree at Lund University.
All of Lund University's MOOCs
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Our courses and programmes are categorised below according to their focus on environmental or societal impacts. However, many cover both dimensions.
Offerings focused on environmental impact
Our programmes and courses with a particular focus on environmental impact are listed below.
Degree programmes, environmental impact
All programmes listed below lead to a Bachelor's degree (180 ECTS), a Master's degree (120 ECTS) or a professional degree (300 ECTS).
Engineering and technology
Master's programmes taught in English (2 years, 120 ECTS)
- Architecture
- Biotechnology
- Digital Architecture and Emergent Futures
- Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation
- Energy-efficient and Environmental Building Design
- Food Technology and Nutrition
- Molecular Biology, Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology
- Production and Materials Engineering
- Sustainable Energy Engineering
- Sustainable Urban Design
- Water Resources Engineering
Bachelor's programmes taught in Swedish (3 years, 180 ECTS)
- Byggteknik med arkitektur | Högskoleingenjör
- Byggteknik – infrastruktur | Högskoleingenjör
- Datateknik | Högskoleingenjör
- Elektroteknik med automation | Högskoleingenjör
- Industridesign
- Livsmedelsteknik
- Logistics service management
Professional degrees taught in Swedish (5 years, 300 ECTS)
- Arkitektutbildning
- Bioteknik | Civilingenjör
- Brandteknik | Civilingenjör
- Datateknik | Civilingenjör
- Ekosystemteknik | Civilingenjör
- Elektroteknik | Civilingenjör
- Industriell ekonomi | Civilingenjör
- Informations- och kommunikationsteknik | Civilingenjör
- Kemiteknik | Civilingenjör
- Lantmäteri | Civilingenjör
- Maskinteknik | Civilingenjör
- Maskinteknik – teknisk design | Civilingenjör
- Medicin och teknik | Civilingenjör
- Risk, säkerhet och krishantering | Civilingenjör
- Teknisk fysik | Civilingenjör
- Teknisk matematik | Civilingenjör
- Teknisk nanovetenskap | Civilingenjör
- Väg- och vattenbyggnad | Civilingenjör
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Humanities
Bachelor's programmes taught in Swedish (3 years, 180 ECTS)
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Management and policy
Master's programmes taught in English (2 years, 120 ECTS)
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Medicine and health
Bachelor's programmes taught in English (3 years, 180 ECTS)
Master's programmes taught in English (2 years, 120 ECTS)
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Science
Bachelor's programmes taught in English (3 years, 180 ECTS)
Master's programmes taught in English (2 years, 120 ECTS)
- Applied Computational Science, Environmental Science
- Biology, Aquatic Ecology
- Biology, Conservation Biology
- Chemistry, Synthetic and Analytical Chemistry
- Environmental Changes at Higher Latitudes (joint programme)
- Geographical Information Systems
- Geo-information Science and Earth Observation for Environmental Modelling and Management (joint programme)
- Geology
- GIS and Remote Sensing
- Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, General
Bachelor's programmes taught in Swedish (3 years, 180 ECTS)
- Naturvetenskapligt kandidatprogram, Biologi
- Naturvetenskapligt kandidatprogram, Kemi
- Naturvetenskapligt kandidatprogram, Miljövetenskap
Master's programmes taught in Swedish (1 or 2 years, 60 or 120 ECTS)
- Miljö- och hälsoskydd (1 year)
- Miljö- och hälsoskydd (2 years)
- Miljövetenskap, Allmän inriktning
- Miljövetenskap, Strategiskt miljöarbete
- Tillämpad klimatstrategi
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Courses, environmental impact
The courses listed below range from 4 to 15 ECTS credits. Some may require specific prior knowledge.
Economics and business
Courses taught in English
- Circular Economy: Managing Materials Sustainably
- Economics: Economics of Evaluations and the Environment
- Greening the economy\
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Engineering and technology
Courses taught in English
- Environmental Issues
- Environmental Issues, Project Course
- Environmental System Studies: Climate, Science and Politics
- Physics and Chemistry of Green and Sustainable Energy
Courses taught in Swedish
- Avfallshantering och resurshushållning
- En cirkulär byggindustri – Introduktion
- Energisystemanalys: energi, miljö och naturresurser
- Energisystemanalys: Förnybara energikällor
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Hållbarhet och resursanvändning med perspektiv på informations- och kommunikationsteknik
- Hållbar utveckling
- Hållbar utveckling med brandingenjörsperspektiv
- Hållbar utveckling med elektrotekniskt perspektiv
- Metoder för användarmedverkan i designprocesser
- Miljökonsekvensbeskrivning
- Miljökunskap och vägbyggnad
- Miljösystemanalys och hållbar utveckling
- Miljösystemanalys: Management för hållbar utveckling
- Miljösystemanalys, livscykelanalys
- Miljö och management
- Miljövetenskap
- Miljövetenskap med miljökemisk profil
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Humanities
Courses taught in Swedish
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Science
Courses taught in English
- Biology: Applied Ecotoxicology
- Biology: Conservation Biology
- Biology: Ecotoxicology
- Biology: Evolutionary Plant Ecology
- Biology: Soil and Plant Ecology
- Chemistry: Advanced Analytical Chemistry
- Computational Science: Introduction to Modelling of Climate System
- Environmental Science: Risk Assessment in Environment and Public Health
- GIS and Biodiversity
- GIS for Built and Natural Environments
- GIS and Climate Change
- Physical Geography: the Climate System
- Physical Geography: Ecosystems Analysis
- Physical Geography: An Introduction to the Global Environment
- Physics: Environmental Measurement Methods
- Risk Assessment in Environment and Public Health
Courses taught in Swedish
- Geologi: Berg, jord och vatten i ett miljöperspektiv
- Geologi: Förorenad mark
- Geologi i samhället
- Kemi: Analytisk kemi
- Miljö- och hälsoskydd – metodik och praktik
- Miljövetenskap – analys och metodik
- Miljövetenskap: grundkurs
- Miljövetenskap: Klimatförändringen, vetenskap och samhälle
- Miljövetenskap: Klimatpolitik, samhällsstyrning och kommunikation
- Miljövetenskap: Klimatstrategiska metoder
- Miljövetenskap: Strategiskt miljö- och hållbarhetsarbete
- Miljörätt för miljövetare
- Miljörätt för naturvetare
- Miljöskydd
- Miljöövervakning
- Mossor, lavar, svampar – biodiversitet och naturvård
- Naturvetenskap: Hållbar utveckling för jorden, livet och miljön
- Naturvård
- Samhällsplanering med klimatperspektiv
- Tillämpad miljövetenskap
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Offerings focused on societal impact
Our programmes and courses with a particular focus on societal impact are listed below.
Degree programmes, societal impact
All programmes listed below lead to a Bachelor's degree (180 ECTS) or a Master's degree (60 or 120 ECTS).
Economics and business
Bachelor's programmes taught in English (3 years, 180 ETCS)
Master's programmes taught in English (1 or 2 years, 60 or 120 ECTS)
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- European Economic Law
- European and International Trade and Tax Law
- International Marketing and Brand Management
- Managing People, Knowledge and Change
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Engineering and technology
Master's programmes taught in English (2 years, 120 ETCS)
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Fine and performing arts
Bachelor's programmes taught in Swedish (3 years, 180 ETCS)
Master's programmes taught in English (2 years, 120 ETCS)
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Humanities
Master's programmes taught in English (2 years, 120 ETCS)
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Medicine and health
Bachelor's programmes taught in Swedish (3 years, 180 ETCS)
Master's programmes taught in English (2 years, 120 ETCS)
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Social sciences
Bachelor's programmes taught in English (3 years, 180 ETCS)
Bachelor's programmes taught in Swedish (3 years, 180 ETCS)
- Human Resources
- Samhällsplanering – urban och regional utveckling
- Service management, Hälsa
- Service management, Retail
- Service management, Turism och hotell
- Sociologi
Master's programmes taught in English (2 years, 120 ETCS)
- Climate Change and Society
- Development Studies, Master's
- Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science
- Global Studies
- Human Ecology – Culture, Power and Sustainability
- Human Geography
- Human Resources
- International Development and Management
- Service Management, Retailing and Consumption
- Service Management, Supply Chain Management
- Service Management, Sustainable Service Management
- Service Management, Tourism
- Social Studies of Gender
- Sociology
- Strategic Communication
Master's programmes taught in Swedish (2 years, 120 ETCS)
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Courses, societal impact
The courses listed below range from 3 to 30 ECTS credits. Some may require specific prior knowledge.
Economics and business
Courses taught in English
- Business Administration: Global Business Responsibility
- Business Administration: Innovation Management
- Business Administration: Re-imagining Money for a Sustainable Future
- Business Law: Corporate Taxation and Sustainability
- Economic History: Growth, Stagnation and Inequality in Africa
- Economic History: Climate Crises and Energy Transitions – Past and Present
- Economics: Development Economics
- Economics: Health Economics
- Economics: Public Economics and the Welfare State
- Entrepreneurship: Social Innovation – a Strategy for Sustainability
- Sustainability reporting, transition finance, and business transformation
Courses taught in Swedish
- Ekonomisk historia: Miljöhistoria ur ett ekonomiskt perspektiv
- Ekonomisk historia: Teknologisk och social utveckling – Historiska erfarenheter och framtida utmaningar
- Handelsrätt: Arbetsrätt I
- Handelsrätt: Compliance och risk i affärslivet
- Handelsrätt: Juridisk översiktskurs
- Handelsrätt: Miljörätt
- Informatik: Digitalisering och AI ur ett organisations- och samhällsperspektiv
- Nationalekonomi: Staten och marknaden
- Offentlig upphandling
- Sveriges ekonomiska och sociala historia
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Engineering and technology
Courses taught in English
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Fine and performing arts
Courses taught in Swedish
- Konceptuell scenkonst
- Musiken i mötet med barn och unga med intellektuella/kognitiva funktionsvarianter
- Musikpedagogik: Masteruppsats
- Regissera konceptuell scenkonst med barn och unga
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Humanities
Courses taught in English
- Aesthetics of Crisis: Health and Well-being
- Asian Studies: China Today – Political Developments, Societal Issues and Global Influences
- Critical Animal Studies – Animals in Society, Culture and the Media
- Cultural Perspectives on Health, Lifestyle and Medicine
- Gastronomy: Sustainable Eating
- History of the Holocaust
- Inter-religious Relations: Conflict and Community in the Historical Past and the Lived Present
- Introduction to Environmental History
- Journalistic Tools and Media Ethics – Online Opportunities and Risks in Times of Crisis
- The Meaning of Europe: Culture, Values and Identity
- Modern Design in Scandinavia
- One World, One Language
- One World, One Morality
- Poetry, Sustainability and Change (Swedish course page)
- Poetry and Sustainability in English Teaching and Learning
- Social AI Through the Looking Glass
- Social Movements in East and South-East Asia
Courses taught in Swedish
- Biblisk sexualitet: sex, makt och kärlek i antiken
- Digitala kulturer: Teorier – Fördjupning 2, konsumtionspraktiker och kommunikation
- Idé- och lärdomshistoria: Framtidens idéhistoria: Förväntningar, utopier och dystopier i historisk belysning
- Inkluderande utbildning – mångfald rättvisa och stöd till lärande
- Kommunikation, tänkande och etik – kognitiva och kulturella perspektiv
- Modevetenskap: Grundkurs 1
- Modevetenskap: Mode och marknad 2
- Tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap: Etik – avancerad kurs II
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Law
Courses taught in English
- Business Law: Corporate Taxation and Sustainability
- Environmental Justice
- Human Rights and the Environment
Courses taught in Swedish
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Medicine and health
Courses taught in English
- Climate and Health in a Global Perspective
- Effects of Air Pollution on Climate, Health and Green Transition – Addressing Complex Issues at the Interface of Technology and Medicine
- Health Systems in a Global Perspective: Methods and Applications
- Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Global Health
- Sustainability and Global Health
Courses taught in Swedish
- Flerprofessionellt perspektiv på våld i nära relationer med fokus på barn som far illa
- Introduktion till forskning och utvecklingsarbete inom medicinsk vetenskap på avancerad nivå
- Kommunikation och Ledarskap – professionell och personlig utveckling
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Science
Courses taught in English
Courses taught in Swedish
- Miljöpolitik och förvaltning
- Miljöstyrning i näringslivet
- Miljövetenskap: Ett cirkulärt och biobaserat samhälle
- Miljövetenskap: Industriell miljöekonomi för miljövetare
- Miljövetenskap: Styrning och styrmedel för en hållbar ekonomi
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Social sciences
Courses taught in English
- Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science: Concepts, Challenges and Approaches in Sustainability Studies
- Energy Transitions and Sustainability
- Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science: Economy and Sustainability
- Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science: Methods and Tools – from Knowledge to Action
- Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science: Politics of Sustainability
- Gender Studies: Gender in a Global World
- Geographies of Sustainability
- Human Ecology: Culture, Economy and Ecology
- Human Ecology: Political Ecology, Crisis and Identity
- Human Geography: The Contemporary Geography of African Development I
- Human Geography: The Contemporary Geography of African Development II
- Human Geography: Landscape and Political Ecology
- Introduction to Sustainability
- Political Science: Environmental and Planetary Politics
- Social Movements and Sustainability
- Sociology: Managing Sustainability, Society and Collective Behaviour
- Sociology: Sociological Perspectives on Sustainability Transitions
- Sustainability and Inner Transformation
- Sustainability and Popular Culture
Courses taught in Swedish
- Freds- och konfliktvetenskap
- Genusvetenskap: Grundkurs – Genus, samhälle och identitet
- GIS: Geografiska Informationssystem för samhällsvetenskap – introduktion med tillämpningar
- Grundkurs i service management
- Humanekologi: Miljö, kultur och utveckling
- Hållbar marknadsföring
- Hållbara arbetsvillkor i tjänsteverksamheter
- Projektledning
- Samhällsgeografi: Ekonomisk geografiska omvandlingsprocesser – platser, människor och produktion
- Samhällsgeografi: Ekonomisk utveckling och planering
- Samhällsgeografi: Hållbara miljöer och planering
- Samhällsgeografi: Risk och kris i planering
- Samhällsgeografi: Social mångfald och planering
- Service management – grundkurs
- Strategisk kommunikation: Hållbarhetskommunikation
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