Unleash Your Potential: Sustainable Futures

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University of Bristol

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What is the course about?

Unleash Your Potential: Sustainable Futures

The course Unleash Your Potential: Sustainable Futures is an online class provided by University of Bristol through Future Learn. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

Learn about the sustainability challenges of the modern world, and make a positive contribution to society.

Course description

Find out how to deal with world sustainability issues
4 weeks

United Nations (UN) countries have adopted a set of goals to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all.
On this online course, you’ll learn about these UN Sustainable Development Goals, and the different roles people can play in creating a sustainable future.
You’ll get an introduction to the sustainability challenges the modern world is facing, and gain the skills to play a part in solving them.
You’ll learn how to make a positive contribution to society on a local and global scale, and create a happy and fulfilling sustainable future for everyone.

Happiness and Purpose, and their links to Sustainable Development.
Responsibility, Purpose and Foresight in response to Sustainability challenges.
How different individuals and organisations take different roles, and work together, to tackle sustainability challenges, explored through a number of case studies.
Making a difference at the local and regional level: Case studies in Food Waste, Energy and Homelessness.
Making a difference at the global level: Case studies in Microplastics, Industrial Greenhouse Gas emissions and Sustainable Tourism.
Understanding the challenges and obstacles those ‘making a difference’ face, and how they find support.
Approaches to personal self reflection on the path to ‘make a difference.’

Identify diverse ways to achieving a sense of purpose.
Explore different approaches to making an impact at a local scale.
Explore different approaches to making an impact at a global scale.
Reflect on an individual’s role in a big system.
Identify ways to make a difference.

This course is aimed at anyone interested in sustainability in a broad sense, but may be of particular interest to students who are looking to develop their transferable skills for the workplace and general day-to-day life.

University of Bristol
University of Bristol is one of the leading institutions among the UK’s Russell Group of universities and is recognised for its research and academic excellence.

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Prerequisites & Facts

Unleash Your Potential: Sustainable Futures

Course Topic

Nature & Environment, Sustainability

University, College, Institution

University of Bristol

Course Skill Level

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Course Language

English

Place of class

Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

Degree

Certificate

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Unleash Your Potential: Sustainable Futures

To obtain a verified certificate from Future Learn / University of Bristol you have to finish this course or the latest version of it, if there is a new edition. The class may be free of charge, but there could be some cost to receive a verified certificate or to access the learning materials. The specifics of the course may have been changed, please consult the provider to get the latest quotes and news.

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