Course Overview
*This course will be running from September 2025 entry*
This degree will provide you with practical work-based learning and academic study in a wide range of environmental and sustainability subjects, at the heart of global changes affecting the world today.
During this degree, you will engage with fascinating and contemporary subjects including environmental justice, social change and global challenges, sustainable business and corporate responsibility, protected areas, rewilding, climate change and living environments, ecopsychology and transformative education. The modules interlink a wide range of topics to support you to work in many different sectors related to sustainability. You will become key actors to build more resilient and sustainable societies for all. You will develop research skills to enable you to undertake field work, and enhance your academic skills such as critical and inclusive thinking, writing, and creativity.
This foundation degree is an exciting opportunity to study and develop an understanding of our socio-ecological systems and how we fit into local, regional and global contexts. This interdisciplinary degree is for you if you are passionate about understanding our relationships and connections as humans with non-humans and the planet as a whole. This degree will provide you with practical work-based learning and academic study in a wide range of environmental and sustainability subjects, at the heart of global changes affecting the world today.
This foundation degree is suitable for you if you are interested in studying or working in:
- Sustainability
- Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Practice
- Conservation Charities and NGOs
- Consultancy and advisory roles
- Environmental Management
- Social and Environmental Policy
- Sustainable Business and Fundraising
- Transformative Learning
Course Details
Key Information
Testimonial
We support of the present development of this foundation degree at the University Centre South Devon. We wholeheartedly support the intentions, needs and potential impact this qualification may have and therefore its value as a learning opportunity.