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What is special about this course? This BSc (Hons) Sustainable Development is the ideal course for you if you are interested in helping communities to develop in a way that is sustainable and highlights the importance of the relationship between the economic, social, political and environmental spheres. The emphasis globally on the UN Sustainable Development Goals and more locally on community empowerment, resilience and community land ownership mean that graduates of this course are ideally situated to understand and respond to many of the key challenges in today's world. The course takes an inter-disciplinary and forward-thinking approach, which combines the theoretical and the practical. It has a great success rate for graduate employment.  Graduates have gone on to careers in community economic development and managing rural development initiatives as well as working with key agencies.You will have the opportunity to engage online with other students from around the world, and if you wish, to meet your fellow students, staff and practitioners face-to-face at a residential study weekend, which provide real added value to your overall study experience. Special features This is an entirely online internationally validated course that you can study from anywhere in the world. The course offers the option of a dedicated rural pathway, leading to a BSc Sustainable Rural Development, which focuses particularly on working with rural communities High employability of graduates An optional residential weekend each year, usually in the Highlands and Islands, where you will have to opportunity to meet practitioners and other students You can study full time or part-time to suit your personal circumstances Individual modules and groups of modules have been developed specifically for continuing professional development (CPD) www.uhi.ac.uk/sustainablecpd (You may also be interested in our BSc (Hons) Geography course)

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BSc (Hons) in Sustainable Development

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