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Please note: the information in the course manual is binding.
After completion of the course, the student is able to:
- Recognize and explain the SDGs and their targets, as representations of integrated global goals, and how different SDGs are related;
- Recognize, explain and reflect upon the positions of different global actors with regard to the SDGs;
- Evaluate what has been achieved on the SDGs thus far, and critically reflect upon the progress;
- Explain how the different societal actors can contribute to reaching the SDGs and what the obstacles to moving from global goals such as the SDGs to action are;
- Work in a multidisciplinary team on a convincing report to the UN Secretary General that outlines how the UN could support global engagement with specific SDGs.
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This course will focus on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of seventeen ‘global goals’ organized by the United Nations through a process of deliberation with its 194 member states and civil society organizations in 2015. Each of these goals has specific targets to be achieved in the next 15 years, with roles for many actors including governments, the private sector and civil society.
In this course, we will focus on the challenge of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and the targets that are attached to them, to understand the challenges and possibilities of moving from global goals to action. Lectures and group projects will focus on the seventeen SDGs with special attention to the connections between the issues associated with the different goals.
The course will feature a high level of interaction with a wide range of societal actors, including global and national private sector, civil society, intergovernmental and media. The second half of the course will have students working together with 35+ national governments and other national actors on SDG implementation planning. We will also collaborate with the Utrecht City Council for a symposium on the SDGs.
This course is the entry requirement for:
- Bachelor’s thesis GSS (GEO3-2422)
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