701-0903-00L  The Sustainable Development Goals Book Club

SemesterHerbstsemester 2021
DozierendeB. B. Pearce, J. Ghazoul
Periodizitätjährlich wiederkehrende Veranstaltung
LehrspracheEnglisch


KurzbeschreibungThe ETH Sustainable Development Goals Book Club is a colloquium for Bachelor students within and outside of Department of Environmental Systems Sicence centered around the discussion of themes from a single book, with the aim of fostering interdisciplinary, intellectual and critical exploration of the scientific and societal complexities related to the Sustainable Development Goals.
LernzielThe aims of this course are to:
- Create an interdisciplinary approach to understanding key concepts of sustainable development and the SDGs
- Create solidarity through a cultural of intellectual exchange at ETH Zurich
- Create a common object of intellectual reference for students with different disciplinary interests to enable diverse ways and modes of thinking
InhaltThe course is similar to 701-0019-00L Readings in Environmental Thinking with the following differences:
- Targeted at Bachelor’s students (especially first and second year, but open to all) within and outside of the department.
- All participating students will read one book whose themes will be the basis for discussions.
- These discussions, taking place both online and in-person, will be moderated by the main lecturers of the course and discussed by additional professors from within and outside of
D-USYS.
- Each discussion will be based on a chapter of a book, always linked to a particular aspect of the SDGs.
- The modes of discussion will vary in length and form, ranging from the traditional, sit-down meeting, to a Twitter book club format (as already pioneered and popularized by author Robert MacFarlane).
- Both students and professors will lead the discussions alternatively.
- Each discussion session will result in a visual output or another shareable output that will be developed by a student or group of students.
LiteraturTBD
Could be one of the books already used in 701-0019-00L Readings in Environmental Thinking (Silent Spring, The Sand County Almanac, Collapse..etc.)
Other possibilities:
- Thinking in systems
- Limits to Growth
- Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
- Small is Beautiful
- For the Common Good
- Factfulness
- The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power (history of the global petroleum industry from 1850s-1990)
Voraussetzungen / Besonderesnone