Overview
The University aims to create the conditions where people develop their knowledge, skills and experience to engage with and contribute effectively to tackling global challenges in Scotland and worldwide.
We plan to do this by:
- supporting all students to be proactive, independent, critically analytical and reflective learners and communicators
- offering every student opportunities to study the broader aspects of the global challenges, social responsibility and sustainability and to explore in depth how their chosen subjects relate to them
- offering students a range of opportunities to engage in community and other activities relating to social responsibility and sustainability
Undergraduate study
Undergraduate students can choose from a variety of optional courses to further their knowledge, including Our Changing World and Environmental and Community Biology.
Postgraduate degrees
Postgraduate opportunities include taught and research degrees ranging from the MSc in Outdoor Environmental and Sustainability Education to the MSc in Public Health Research and MSc Slavery and Forced Labour Studies.
Open Studies
We offer a range of part time, day and evening courses through our Open Studies programme - an opportunity to increase your knowledge, skills and employability through affordable part-time study.
We live and work in an age of great uncertainty – economically, politically and, perhaps most importantly, environmentally. The future of our planet is of great concern to all generations but that concern is often felt most acutely by young people at the dawn of their careers who come to study at institutions like ours in large numbers, year on year. The education that we are able to offer them needs to reflect current interests and passions.
Professor Sir Timothy O'Shea
Principal
This article was published on May 9, 2011