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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Unleash Your Potential: Sustainable Futures
This course offered an insight into how, through self reflection and a greater understanding of happiness and purpose, individuals can contribute to a more sustainable future. Through case studies, it investigated how individuals and organisations take different roles, working together to tackle sustainability challenges at a local, national and international level. It also explored the personal challenges and obstacles faced by those making a difference, and how they find support.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Professor Judith Squires
Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost
University of Bristol
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- 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.
Syllabus
- 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.’
Issued on 26th June 2020
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