Sustainability courses and programmes

Leiden University offers its students a wide range of bachelor's, master's and minors that explore sustainability or climate. Here, you find an overview of those programmes in the academic year 2020-2021.

The inventory below was created by searching the study guides of the 2020-2021 academic year programmes for the English terms 'sustainable/sustainability', 'environment/environmental', 'climate', and the Dutch terms 'milieu', 'klimaat', ‘duurzaam/duurzame/duurzaamheid’. In brackets after the programme stands the faculty within which the programme is offered.

Bachelor's degrees

Liberal Arts and Sciences: Global Challenges – Major Earth, Energy & Sustainability (Governance and Global Affairs, The Hague)
Urban Studies (Humanities)
Biology (Science)
Molecular Science and Technology (Science / TU Delft)
Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (Social and Behavioural Sciences)

Master's degrees

Heritage & Museum Studies (Archeology)
Biology – Track Biodiversity and Sustainability and Track Evolutionary Biology (Science)
Chemistry – Research area Energy & Sustainability (Science)
Governance of Sustainability (Science / Governance and Global Affairs)
Industrial Ecology (Science / TU Delft)
Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology – Specialisation Sociology of Policy in Practice (Social and Behavioural Sciences)

Minors

Biodiversity (Science)
Sustainable Chemistry and Biotechnology (Science)
Sustainable Development (Science/ Interdisciplinary)
Frugal Innovation for Sustainable Global Development (Leiden/Delft/Rotterdam)
Responsible Innovation (Leiden/Delft/Rotterdam)
Geo-Resources for the Future (Leiden/Delft/Rotterdam)

Honours College traject Tackling Global Challenges (Honours Academy)
Major Leiden University College: Earth, Energy & Sustainability (Governance and Global Affairs, The Hague)

Other courses

Courses related to sustainability but not part of the above minors, bachelors and masters.

Law

Bachelor, Law: Corporate social responsibility
Master Public International Law, Peace Justice & Development: International economic law and sustainable development
Master Staats- en Bestuursrecht: Environmental Law (Dutch)

Social and Behavioural Sciences

Bachelor Political Science: Climate Justice
Master Psychology: Environmental psychology

Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

Bachelor Liberal Arts and Sciences, major World Politics: The International Politics of Climate Change
Bachelor Liberal Arts and Sciences, major Global Public Health: Environmental Pollution
Bachelor Liberal Arts and Sciences, major Governance, Economics & Development: Political Economy of Natural Resources
Bachelor Liberal Arts and Sciences, major International Justice: International Environmental Law
Bachelor Liberal Arts and Sciences, general course: Global Challenges, Sustainability
Master Crisis & Security Management: Global Environmental Politics and Ethics
Master International Relations and Diplomacy: Advocacy in Global Challenges and Climate Change

Humanities

Bachelor Philosophy: Environmental Philosophy
Bachelor Film and Literary Studies: Planetary Issues, From New Nationalism to Environmental Crises
Master International Relations, Global Political Economy: The Environment and Global Capitalism
Master Middle Eastern Studies: Oil, Water and Waste: Environmental Issues in the Middle East and North Africa
Master International Relations, European Studies: EU Environmental Policy and Law
Humanities Lab: Plastics: A cultural history

Archaeology

Bachelor Archeology: Environmental History of the Near East
Master Archeology: Human Planet

Science

Bachelor Molecular Science and Technology: Energy, Recycling and Safety
Bachelor Biology: Veldonderzoek Milieubiologie
Master Chemistry: Photosynthesis and Bioenergy
Minor advanced Life Science and Technology: Bio-based Materials in a circular economy

Extracurricular

Master Honours Class: Circular Economy: from Challenge to Opportunity
Honours vak in traject FSW: Sustainability and Health