Integrated Environmental Studies ERDE (BSc) Program at a Glance

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An ever-increasing world population demanding food, water, energy, health care, and education puts unprecedented pressure on both, the “Earth System” that is its natural environment and resource, and the institutions that design the framework organizing access to and distribution
of resources and education. Successful sustainable management of these global challenges, therefore, requires an integrated approach which combines elements from the natural and engineering sciences with those from social, political and economics studies. The study program Integrated Environmental Studies provides a broad and interdisciplinary education in these diverse fields within the multicultural environment of Jacobs University Bremen with its students from about 100 different countries. In addition to lectures and seminars, students will gain practical experience and skills during laboratory courses, excursions (on coal, power plants, renewable energy, environmental impact of mining, energy policy, sustainable development projects) and internships, all of which are taught in English. In the course of the program, students are given the option to focus on specializations "Environment and Resources”, “Energy Policy and Technology” and/or "Sustainable Development".

First year
• Mathematics and Statistics
• Environmental Science
• Earth & Space Science
• Science Lectures
• Economics
• International Institutions
• Social Inequality
• Excursions
• Language and University Studies courses

Second year
• Environmental Geoscience
• “ERDE” Seminar
• Environmental Management
• Environmental and Energy Geopolitics
• Ecology
• Geology, Hydrogeology, and Soil Science
• Resource and Environment Economics
• ComputerLab: Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• Renewable Energy Technology
• Sustainable Energy Policy
• Global Energy Markets
• Excursions
• Internship

Third year
• “ERDE” Seminar
• Waste and Freshwater Management and Technology
• Agricultural and Food Chemistry and Nutrition
• Ecology and Evolution
• Guided Research Projects
• University Studies Course(s)

See also the Program Handbook for the course requirements for students matriculated in the year:
2010 |

Prof. Dr. Michael Bau
Earth and Space Sciences
Prof. Dr. Werner Bergholz
Electrical Engineering
Prof. Dr. Gert Brunekreeft
Energy Economics
Prof. Dr. Marcelo Fernandez-Lahore
Biotechnology
Prof. Dr. Philipp Genschel
Political Science
Prof. Dr. Andrea Koschinsky-Fritsche
Earth and Space Sciences
Prof. Dr. Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns
Physics
Dr. Karen Smith Stegen
Energy and Environmental Politics
Prof. Dr. Vikram Unnithan
Earth and Space Sciences
Prof. Dr. Colin Vance
Adjunct Professor of Quantitative Methods
Prof. Dr. Welf Werner
Professor of International Economics

The degree in Integrated Environmental Studies with its broad focus on a wide range of aspect of “ERDE”, combined with the multicultural experience at Jacobs University allows graduates to enter companies, government institutions and non-government organizations that operate worldwide in the fields of Environment, Resources, Development and Energy. They are also qualified to continue their academic education within related programs. The “integrated”-program aims to educate policy-minded students with a strong technological background.