Online Certificate Course

Unleash Your Potential: Sustainable Futures

Make a positive contribution to society as you learn how to overcome sustainability challenges whilst maintaining your wellbeing.
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Duration

4 Weeks

Duration

4 Weeks

Duration

4 Weeks

Duration

4 Weeks

Course Overview

Find out how to deal with world sustainability issues

United Nations (UN) countries have adopted a set of goals to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all.

On this four-week course, you’ll learn about these UN Sustainable Development Goals, and the different roles people can play in creating a sustainable future.

You’ll get an introduction to sustainability challenges and gain the skills to play a part in solving them.

The course will also help you learn how to protect and enhance your wellbeing to ensure you can change the world for the better.

Understand individual, local, and global roles in sustainability challenges

You’ll learn how to make a positive contribution to society on an individual, local, and global scale to create a fulfilling sustainable future for everyone.

Exploring what makes you happy and gives you a sense of purpose, you’ll look at the many ways you can make a difference. You’ll also look at what can be done on a local level as you investigate case studies relating to food, energy, and homelessness.

Next, you’ll explore global challenges such as microplastics, greenhouse gases, and industry contributors to climate change.

Develop your mental resilience when facing the climate crisis

Facing the climate crisis can be daunting. On this course, you’ll be encouraged to consider your own mental health and wellbeing. You will explore case studies to see how others have built up their mental resilience while striving to build a better world.

Learn from the experts at the University of Bristol

Throughout the course, you’ll hear stories from inspirational people who are making changes worldwide.

With these motivational case studies, and the guidance of the academics at the University of Bristol, you’ll have the tools you need to influence the world around you with a resilient mindset.

What Will You Learn?

Happiness and Purpose, and their links to Sustainable Development.

Responsibility, Purpose and Foresight in response to Sustainability challenges.

How different individuals and organisations take different roles, and work together, to tackle sustainability challenges, explored through a number of case studies.

Making a difference at the local and regional level: Case studies in Food Waste, Energy and Homelessness.

Making a difference at the global level: Case studies in Microplastics, Industrial Greenhouse Gas emissions and Sustainable Tourism.

Understanding the challenges and obstacles those ‘making a difference’ face, and how they find support.
Approaches to personal self reflection on the path to ‘make a difference.’

What Will You Achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to…

  • Identify diverse ways to achieving a sense of purpose.
  • Explore different approaches to making an impact at a local scale.
  • Explore different approaches to making an impact at a global scale.
  • Reflect on an individual’s role in a big system.
  • Identify ways to make a difference.

Prerequisites

This course is designed for anyone interested in sustainability. It may be of particular interest to you if you are looking to develop transferable skills for the workplace or even for general day-to-day life.

Course Instructors

Aisling Tierney

Lecturer, University of Bristol Lecturer, Cultural Heritage Institute, Royal Agriculture University Lead Assessor, Office for Students Research: archaeology (Albania), sustainability, higher education

Chris Preist

Chris is Academic Head of Sustainability, and Professor of Sustainability and Computer Systems in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol.

Eleni Michalopoulou

Eleni is a Research Associate with the Stockholm Environment Institute of the University of York and is a member of the Cabot Institute and the Department of Geography of the University of Bristol

Course Provider

University of Bristol is one of the leading institutions among the UK’s Russell Group of universities and is recognised for its research and academic excellence.

Unleash Your Potential: Sustainable Futures

4.8
4.8/5

₹ 3,529

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