BASc Education Studies and Global Sustainable Development
Bachelor of Arts & Sciences (BASc)
Three year full-time programme
Joint honours with Education Studies and GSD
Study abroad & work placement opportunities
Education is essential in enabling a more sustainable future. It is a fundamental tool in the promotion and achievement of all the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and Goal 4 specifically sets targets for Quality Education. This unique degree programme represents a flagship contribution to UNESCO’s international Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) agenda, and its graduates will be well-positioned to make a difference to the world now and in the future.
Duration*
- 3 years full-time; or
- 3 years full-time with integrated study abroad programme; or
- 4 years full-time with intercalated year spent either studying abroad or on work placement.
Entry requirements
A level:
- AAB
- You will also need grade B/grade 6 in English and Mathematics at GCSE.
IB:
- 36 points to include English and Mathematics
For more information please see here.
UCAS code
CATS
An Honours Degree requires a minimum of 360 CATS during the course, comprising 120 CATS per year. For this course of study, credits are normally split equally between Global Sustainable Development modules and modules offered by the Centre for Education Studies.
Qualification
Bachelor of Arts and Sciences (BASc).
Location of study
University of Warwick
Tuition fees
Find out more about fees and funding
Warwick Undergraduate Excellence Scholarship 2021
This new scheme will offer international fee-paying students 250 tuition fee discounts ranging from full fees to awards of £13,000 to £2,000 for the full duration of your Undergraduate degree course.
Find out more about the Warwick Undergraduate Global Excellence Scholarship 2021
Additional course costs
There may be costs associated with other items or services such as academic texts, course notes, and trips associated with your course. Students who choose to complete a work placement or study abroad will pay reduced tuition fees for their third year.
* You will be automatically enrolled on the three-year course, however, you have the option to change to a four-year course with an intercalated year in your third year. During the intercalated year, you may pursue a study abroad programme or a work placement (subject to you meeting departmental academic requirements).
If you are interested in the world's problems, want to learn more about them and have a social conscience, then you should study Global Sustainable Development (GSD). If you are flexible and adaptable and able to consider global issues from different perspectives, understand their complexity, can think creatively about potential solutions and want to be equipped to make a real difference to the world, then you should study GSD at Warwick.
The course seeks to prepare you to become a Global Citizen with a conscience, equipped with knowledge and understanding of the key issues of sustainable development from across a broad range of disciplines, and to give you the capacity to contribute to and lead on important international debates. If you’re passionate about examining the relationship between education and Sustainable Development and the challenges facing the education sector at home and abroad, and if you’re enthused by finding new ways to promote learning about sustainability challenges, this course is for you.
Adopting a problem-based approach, which fosters the investigation of issues using a range of means of enquiry used by researchers from the sciences, arts and social sciences fields, you’ll work with GSD peers from the other GSD courses to explore the different approaches and solutions offered, their implications and limitations and their inter-connectivity. You’ll be stimulated to think critically and creatively about contemporary problems of global significance and to explore ethically and morally complex areas in the search for positive interventions with a beneficial impact.
Embracing new opinions from your peers across the world, we’ll challenge you to become an active participant in your own learning and help you to develop professional skills through certificates you’ll complete as part of the course. You can also spend Terms 2 and 3 of your second year studying abroad at our partner institution, Monash University, home to the world-leading Monash Sustainable Development Institute. Alternatively, you may choose to apply for an intercalated year abroad or work placement.
"Education must be a core component of the Sustainable Development agenda"
"Taken in its entirety, this degree offers students an indepth understanding of the contemporary social-economic and environmental challenges that face our world, but also how education might be conceived and practiced, in a manner that finally realises its long touted potential to respond. Education must be a core component of the Sustainable Development agenda, and this degree will well equip students to make sure of this!"
Senior Teaching Fellow, GSD
First Year
Core GSD modules (60 CATS in total)
- Economic Principles of GSD (GD104) (15 CATS, Term 1)
- Social Principles of GSD (GD106) (15 CATS, Term 1)
- Environmental Principles of GSD (GD105) (15 CATS, Term 2)
- GSD Project (GD107) (15 CATS, Term 2)
Core Education Studies modules (60 CATS in total)
- Theories of Learning (EQ109) (15 CATS, Term 1)
- Social Contexts of Childhood and Education (EQ105) (15 CATS, Term 1)
- International Education (EQ104) (15 CATS, Term 2)
- Education Today (EQ107) (15 CATS, Term 2)
Certificates
- Certificate of Digital Literacy (Term 1)
- Certificate of Sustainability (Term 3)
- Certificate of Professional Communication with Work Placement
The work placement is completed over four weeks, but can be longer (Term 3)
Second Year
(remaining at Warwick)
Optional core GSD module (30 CATS in total)
- Health and Sustainable Development (30 CATs, Terms 1&2)
or
- Security, Sovereignty and Sustainability in the Global Food System (30 CATs, Terms 1&2)
or
- Inequalities and Sustainable Development: Inclusion and Dignity for All (30 CATs, Terms 1&2)
Optional core Education Studies modules (30 CATS in total)
A choice of two modules from the following:
- Globalisation and Education (EQ203) (15 CATS, Term 2)
- Policies and Politics of the English Education System (EQ206) (15 CATS, Term 1)
- Professional Identity and Skills: Work-Based Placement (EQ205) (15 CATS, Term 1)
Optional module(s) with a GSD focus (30 CATS in total)
- Any approved optional module(s) with a GSD focus, including from other departments across the University (30 CATs, Terms 1&2)
Optional Education Studies modules (30 CATS in total)
- Any approved module(s) with an Education Studies focus, including from departments across the University (30 CATS, Terms 1 & 2)
Certificates
- Certificate of Coaching Practice (Term 2)
- Certificate of Professional Communication with Work Placement
The work placement is completed over four weeks, but can be longer (Term 3)
Second Year
(integrated year with Terms 2 and 3 spent abroad)
Term 1
Optional core GSD module (15 CATS in total)
- Health and Sustainable Development (15 CATS, Term 1)
or
- Security, Sovereignty and Sustainability in the Global Food System (15 CATS, Term 1)
or
- Inequalities and Sustainable Development: Inclusion and Dignity for All (15 CATS, Term 1)
Optional module with a GSD focus (15 CATS in total)
- Any approved optional module with a GSD focus, including from other departments across the University (15 CATS, Term 1)
Education Studies modules (30 CATS in total)
- Modules offered by any department in the University which have an Education Studies focus (30 CATS, Term 1)
Terms 2 and 3
Terms 2 and 3 are spent abroad, where relevant courses are taught by a partner institution. Students are required to register on the module Study Abroad Part-Year (GD200) which recognises the period of study abroad.
Final Year
Core GSD module (30 CATS in total)
- Dissertation/Long Project (GD307) (30 CATS, Terms 1 - 3)
Optional module(s) with a GSD focus (30 CATS in total)
- Any approved optional module(s) with a GSD focus, including from other departments across the University (30 CATS, Terms 1&2)
Optional Education Studies modules (60 CATS in total)
- Any approved modules with an Education Studies focus, including from departments across the University (60 CATS, Terms 1 & 2)
Explore the lists of GSD and Education Studies modules in full
Your university experience could be a truly global one by studying overseas. You can access study abroad opportunities via two routes:
1. Study abroad in terms 2 and 3 of your second year
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You could spend terms 2 and 3 of your second year studying abroad at our Department's partner institution, Monash University, home to the world-leading Monash Sustainable Development Institute. Our integrated programme is specifically structured so you can spend time abroad without having to extend the overall length of your course. Your academic achievements abroad will count towards your degree awarded by Warwick, meaning your studies will be both rewarding and rewarded! You will continue to pay your course fees in full to Warwick and you will also continue to receive your student loan, if eligible.
2. Year-long study abroad
You may, alternatively, choose to spend an intercalated year at one of Warwick's many other partner institutions across the world. You'll spend your first and second years at Warwick, studying abroad in your third year. You'll then return to Warwick for your final year. Your year abroad won't count towards your final mark, but it will be recorded on your Higher Education Achievement Report, giving you the freedom to take chances with your module choice and push yourself outside of your comfort zone with your learning. Please see here for more information about the intercalated study abroad opportunity.
Find out more about your options for studying abroad.
In the GSD Department, we have a dedicated Employability and Placement Manager who’ll provide you with one-to-one careers guidance. They work in collaboration with employers, so you’ll be supported in securing appropriate work placements. You’ll have access to specialist pre-placement advice, guidance and preparation, as well as on-going support during your placement.
As a GSD graduate, you have a wide range of career pathways that are available to you. This is demonstrated by the variety of work placements that our students have completed with employers from different sectors.
Our students have been successful in securing work placements with employers from the private, public, and third sectors. This includes:
- Research Institutions
- Governmental Bodies
- Non-Governmental Organisations
- Intelligence Agencies
- Housing
- Sustainable Consultancies
- Finance
Our students have undertaken diverse roles such as:
- Marketing Assistant
- Sustainability Officer
- Intelligence Analyst
- Researchers
- Teaching
- Human Resources
You will learn valuable transferable skills that will help you with your employment prospects including:
- Analysing and problem solving: Through your study of economic principles and models, you’ll learn how to extract the essential features of complex systems, providing useable frameworks for evaluation
- Critical thinking: Assess arguments, make judgements, formulate reasoned debates and generate feasible solutions
- Communication: Develop advanced communication skills that enable you to communicate with a variety of audiences and in different settings
- Research: An integrated programme of research skills training, teaching you how to source, evaluate and use different forms of information and data
- Organisation: Through a rigorous assessment schedule and a compulsory dissertation module in your final year, you’ll learn the essentials of time management, prioritisation and how to be well organised
- Collaboration: You’ll have plenty of opportunities to work with others and nurture your emotional intelligence, developing a professional attitude
Single honours
Joint honours
- Economic Studies and Global Sustainable Development
- Global Sustainable Development and Business Studies
- Hispanic Studies and Global Sustainable Development
- History and Global Sustainable Development
- Life Sciences and Global Sustainable Development
- Philosophy and Global Sustainable Development
- Politics, International Studies and Global Sustainable Development
- Psychology and Global Sustainable Development
- Sociology and Global Sustainable Development
- Theatre and Performance Studies and Global Sustainable Development