Podcasts
In this podcast mini-series, staff and students from the School for Cross-faculty Studies delve into some of the critical global challenges facing today's world. Each episode tackles a particular one of these challenges but selects an interdisciplinary lens through which to tackle this problem.
Episode 1 - Sustainability: Origins, Education, and Solutions
10:37, Tue 11 Dec 2018
Is sustainability really a new idea? What do we mean by education for sustainable development? And how can we create a more sustainable world for all? Dr Bryan Brazeau (Senior Teaching Fellow, Liberal Arts) and Dr Alastair Smith (Senior Teaching Fellow, Global Sustainable Development) discuss the origins of the sustainability discourse, tracing its surprising history through to our current understanding of sustainable development.
(MP3 format, 28 MB)
Modules Featured in the Series
GD313 - Human Rights and Social Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean
GD302 - Surviving the Apocalypse
IP303 - A Sustainable Serenissima: Water, Fire and the Future of Venice
IP204 - The Apocalyptic Imaginary
BA Liberal Arts
BASc Global Sustainable Development
(Single Honours)
BASc Global Sustainable Development
(Joint Honours)