足球竞彩app排名

图片

Climate, Sustainability & Inequality

Start main page content

Academic programmes and courses that explore climate change and inequality

Climate change threatens human rights and survival worldwide, creating new inequalities while worsening existing ones. Wits is tackling this crisis head-on through education that produces graduates equipped to find real solutions. Our conservation and environmental courses give students the expertise to address these complex challenges.

Here are a few of the programmes that Wits offers.

Undergraduate courses

Climate Change and Me Launched in 2022, Wits was the first institution to lead with a university-wide course aimed at responding to this global challenge. The course is the largest course by student numbers at Wits and is offered during the Gateway to Success orientation programme.
BSc in the field of Environmental Studies Provides a cross-cutting and interdisciplinary science and social science education, focusing on the historical and contemporary issues facing southern Africa, including climate and environmental change, resource management, environmental justice and sustainability.
BSc in the field of Biological Sciences Offered by the School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, this career line includes diverse training in ecology and conservation, which are sought-after skills in dealing with the interdisciplinary challenges faced by society.
Bachelor of Science in Urban and Regional Planning In a context of rapid urbanisation, social transformation and a changing natural environment, Urban and Regional Planning is about efficient and effective space management and creating places with meaning and quality.
BCom Applied Development Economics major Real-world application of economic analysis in the field of economic policy from a development perspective. This grounding is focused on South Africa so as to train graduates who can conceptualise effective responses to the country’s many developmental challenges.

Postgraduate programmes

BSc Hons, field of Environmental Studies The Environmental Studies stream is one of the fastest-growing divisions in the School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies. The School hosts a highly skilled body of staff who are highly qualified in specialised fields.
BSc Hons field of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences The School is home to several world leaders in sustainability, savannah ecology, among other research areas and includes a diverse, research-active and passionate staff and postgraduate cohort working on a variety of projects ranging from animal behaviour to plant systematics and evolution to ecology to aquatic ecology.
Energy Leadership Master’s degree and a Postgraduate Diploma in the field of Energy Leadership, offered by the African Energy Leadership Centre (AELC) at the Wits Business School. A hub of teaching and research, the focus of the AELC is on the latest thinking and best practice in energy leadership.
Environmental Law The Wits School of Law offers an LLM and PGDip specialisation in Environmental Law, covering aspects such as constitutional environmental rights, resource conservation laws, pollution control, and how environmental regulations are applied in practice.
MSc in the field of Environmental Science 足球竞彩app排名s explore environmental management systems covering environmental monitoring and impact assessments, land use modelling, resource management, climate change, and biodiversity conservation.
Interdisciplinary Global Change Studies This MSc by coursework and research report tackles the big sustainability challenges: climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation.
Civil and Environmental Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering are fascinating fields with deep connections to sustainability – and they're more crucial than ever as we face climate challenges.
WESAF Programme Sustainable African Futures (WESAF) - interdisciplinary MSc and PhD research on areas related to sustainability on the African continent.
MCom field of Environmental and Energy Economics Trains economists with the skills required in applied economic analysis that informs environmental and energy policies, and is aimed at remedying market failures in these sectors.
Master of Urban Studies With a focus on cities of the Global South, students are introduced to the forces that shape cities, including development processes, power and politics, and discourses of modernity, globalisation and post-colonialism.
MCom field of Inequality Studies An interdisciplinary programme drawing from economics, sociology, politics and education to offer a unique approach to inequality studies.