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Best Practices

A collection of examples and best practices on how complex systems issues are approached in existing undergraduate courses, through the gathering, analysis and reviews of curricula, syllabus and course-materials, and in addition, making observations of teaching methods, task designs and student performance.


Title Typology Thematic Area Institution
Tourism Studies Program, Sustainable Destination and the Impact on the Local Community, 7.5 ECTS Syllabus, Curriculum, Course material Social Sciences and Humanities Department of informatics and tourism science, Södertörn University
Challenges for Emerging Cities: Open Lab Multidisciplinary Course, 15 credits Syllabus, Curriculum, Exercise Multi-disciplinary The course is available for all students with a bachelor degree from the four universities in the Stockholm region (Södertörn University, Stockholm University, Karolinska Institutet, and the Royal Institute of Technology
Information Systems, 15 credits Syllabus, Lecture, Course material, Exercise Technology School of natural science, environmetal studies, and technology , Södertörn University
Media, Technology, Society, 15 credits Syllabus, Curriculum, Lecture, Workshop, Course material, Readings Technology School of natural science, environmetal studies, and technology , Södertörn University
International cooperation 15 hp, UIS program Syllabus, Curriculum, Lecture, Seminar, Debate, Course material, Readings, Exercise Social Sciences and Humanities Södertörn University, School of Natural Sciences, Environment and Technology, Department for Environment and Tourism
Innovation and Sustainable development 15 hp, Syllabus, Lecture, Seminar, Debate, Course material, Readings, Exercise Multi-disciplinary Södertörn University, School of Natural Sciences, Environment and Technology, Department for Environment and Tourism
Environment and Development 15 hp, UIS program Syllabus, Lecture, Seminar, Debate, Course material, Readings, Exercise Multi-disciplinary Södertörn University, School of Natural Sciences, Environment and Technology, Department for Environment and Tourism
Population, environment and culture 7,5 hp UIS program Syllabus, Lecture, Seminar, Course material, Readings, Exercise Multi-disciplinary Södertörn University, School of Natural Sciences, Environment and Technology, Department for Environment and Tourism
Global Health 15 hp (part of the program Development and International relations 120 hp) Syllabus, Lecture, Seminar, Course material, Readings, Exercise Multi-disciplinary Södertörn University, School of Natural Sciences, Environment and Technology, Department for Environment and Tourism
Development and International relations ( program 120 hp) Curriculum, Course material Multi-disciplinary Södertörn University, School of Natural Sciences, Environment and Technology, Department for Environment and Tourism
Complexity of Sustainability Fund Workshop Multi-disciplinary Utrecth University
Complexity and Sustainability in Social-Ecological Systems Syllabus Social Sciences and Humanities University of Waterloo
Forecasting, Innovation and Change Curriculum Multi-disciplinary , Social Sciences and Humanities University of Bologna
Global Systems Science and Policy: an Introduction Lecture Social Sciences and Humanities UNESCO UNITWIN Complex Systems Digital Campus
Community Development Practicum Social Sciences and Humanities Limerick Institute of Technology
SDG Development Educ Masters Syllabus Multi-disciplinary Limerick Institute of Technology
Sean O'Farrell Cloncannon BioFarm Syllabus, Workshop Multi-disciplinary , Natural Sciences Cloncannon Farm/LIT
SDG Games for Youth Work Workshop Social Sciences and Humanities Limerick Institute of Technology
Sustainable Energy Systems Management Syllabus Multi-disciplinary Limerick Institute of Technology
PBL Env Programmes Workshop, Practicum Natural Sciences Limerick Institute of Technology
Global Development Syllabus Social Sciences and Humanities Limerick Institute of Technology
FOLM Practicum Social Sciences and Humanities Limerick Institute of Technology
Lulitmi Syllabus, Course material Multi-disciplinary , Social Sciences and Humanities University of Limerick/LIT
Advisory Board Debate Social Sciences and Humanities Limerick Institute of Technology
Sustainable Energy Systems Management - Masters Programme Syllabus Technology Limerick Institute of Technology
Management of Protected Areas Syllabus, Lecture, Practicum, Course material Technology, Natural Sciences Ionian University, Department of Environment
Special Topics on Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability Syllabus, Lecture, Course material Social Sciences and Humanities, Natural Sciences University of the Aegean, Department of Environment
Environmental Education & Communication Syllabus, Lecture, Course material Social Sciences and Humanities, Natural Sciences Ionian University, Department of Environment
Computer Programming I & II Syllabus, Lecture, Practicum Technology, Natural Sciences Ionian University, Department of Environment
Structural Integrity Course material Technology Kaunas University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Design
Business Informatics Curriculum Technology Riga Technical University
Industrial Fermentation Processes Syllabus, Lecture, Practicum Technology, Natural Sciences Ionian University, Department of Food Science and Technology
Air pollution/Gas pollution Treatment Technologies Syllabus, Lecture, Practicum Technology, Natural Sciences Ionian University, Department of Environment
Methodology and Philosophy of Biological Sciences Syllabus, Curriculum Natural Sciences Universidade Federal de Pelotas UFPel
Chemistry at at Federal University of Uberlândia - MG-Brazil: Syllabus, Curriculum Natural Sciences Federal University of Uberlândia - MG-Brazil:
Chemistry and Sustainability Syllabus Natural Sciences Institute for Green Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University
Complex Systems Investigations and Complex Biological Systems Syllabus Natural Sciences Università degli Studi di Perugia
Design/Build Studio Syllabus Multi-disciplinary , Social Sciences and Humanities, Natural Sciences University of Washington
Research Methodologies in Development Projects Syllabus Multi-disciplinary Universitat Politènica de València
Participatory retrofitting of school playgrounds: Collaboration between children and university students to develop a vision Workshop Multi-disciplinary , Social Sciences and Humanities, Natural Sciences University of Perugia - Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences
Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Degree Curriculum Multi-disciplinary , Technology, Social Sciences and Humanities, Natural Sciences London Interdisciplinary School
Special Topics and experiments of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry Lecture Natural Sciences National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
The BASc (Bachelor of Applied Sciences) Arts and Sciences at UCL Curriculum Multi-disciplinary , Technology, Social Sciences and Humanities, Natural Sciences University College of London
Organic Chemistry of Natural Compounds Syllabus Natural Sciences Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa
Water and Soil Pollution Syllabus, Lecture, Course material Natural Sciences Ionian University, Department of Environment
Stochastic and non-linear systems Lecture Natural Sciences University of West Attica
BigData School Workshop Natural Sciences Kaunas University of Technology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Information System Design and CASE Technology Syllabus, Curriculum, Course material Technology Kaunas University of Technology, Faculty of Informatics
Logistics Syllabus, Curriculum, Course material Social Sciences and Humanities Kaunas University of Technology, School of Economics and Business
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making Syllabus, Curriculum, Course material Natural Sciences Kaunas University of Technology, Faculty of Informatics
Introduction to Living Systems Syllabus, Lecture, Course material Technology, Natural Sciences Technical University of Denmark
Title Typology Thematic Area Institution
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