701-0903-00L The Sustainable Development Goals Book Club
| Semester | Herbstsemester 2021 |
| Dozierende | B. B. Pearce, J. Ghazoul |
| Periodizität | jährlich wiederkehrende Veranstaltung |
| Lehrsprache | Englisch |
| Kurzbeschreibung | The 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. |
| Lernziel | The 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 |
| Inhalt | The 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. |
| Literatur | TBD 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 / Besonderes | none |