Environmental Sustainability (F8520E)

15 credits, Level 4

Autumn teaching

How can we, together, create a fair and sustainable world?

On this module, you’ll look at complex sustainability challenges and their interactions. You’ll explore pressing global issues, such as:

• climate change
• loss of nature
• pressure on resources
• questions of fairness and justice, how global problems are felt in local places, and how our actions can make a difference.

Drawing on Sussex University’s radical history of thinking across subjects, you’ll explore how we create progressive change. You’ll also engage with the social, political, cultural and ethical issues involved in making decisions about the future.

By the end of the module, you’ll have a clearer sense of how sustainability issues connect with one another, and how you might contribute to building fairer and more resilient futures.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 22 hours of contact time and about 128 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2026/27. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.