Courses & curriculum
Sustainable Bioscience offers a dynamic curriculum that empowers you with the knowledge, skills, and mindset to take on complex challenges from multiple perspectives. It’s designed to prepare you to think critically and creatively in tackling real-world problems.
Programme structure
The bachelor's programme is structured over six semesters. Each semester is divided into three parts: two 7-week periods and one 3-week period. During the two 7-week periods, you take courses and participate in skills training. In the final 3-week period, you work on a project where you apply what you've learnt from the courses and skills training.
Curriculum overview
Year 1 semester 1: Building your foundation
Build a solid foundation with courses about biological and earth systems, food, nutrition, and plant biology. You will gain laboratory skills, like in biology and biochemistry. The semester ends with a team-based project where you apply your skills to a real-world challenge.
Year 1 semester 2: Diving into behaviour, data, and ecology
Explore in depth the value of consumer behaviour, data analysis, and mathematics. Your skills training will include statistics, and in the field you will discover landscape ecology. This semester will also end with a collaborative research project.
Year 2 semester 3 and 4: Choose your topics
During your second year, you tailor your curriculum by choosing courses and skill training from over 30 options. You will also start to think about the concentration you want to choose in year three and take a preparatory course. As in year one, you will end every semester with a collaborative research project.
Year 3 semester 5: Pick your concentration
In the third year you built your personal profile by selecting one of the three concentrations: Planetary Systems, Agricultural Systems, or Food Systems. You end the semester with a grand challenge, a sustainable systems design.
Year 3 semester 6: Bachelor thesis research
You finish your bachelor's programme with an individual, practical project: the bachelor thesis research. With this project, you will show what you have learnt over the past few years and that you are ready to graduate.
Since the bachelor’s programme is brand new, the courses and their titles might be subject to (slight) changes.