ENV-321: Aquatic ecosystemsInland waters are now being recognized are major players of global biogeochemical cycles. They also provide essential ecosystem services such as fresh water and fish, and link continental processes wi
ENV-103: BiologyThis course will cover the fundamental principles governing life and the living world. Topics will include the diversity of living organisms, cellular biology, genetics, evolution, and ecology. This c
ENV-412: Microbial ecologyThe course will focus on fundamental concepts of microbial ecology and environmental microbiology, with emphasis on bacteria and archaea, although fungi, algae, and protists will also be covered.
PENS-219: Hidden riversHidden Rivers aims at fulfilling the need for an interdisciplinary understanding of the problematics surrounding urban streams, through ecological, hydrological, and spatial relationships found in riv
PENS-225: RhonescapeRHONEscape aims at realizing the necessary interdisciplinary educational background of the problematics affecting highly-corrected large rivers, by examining riverine ecological, hydrological and morp
ENV-422: Applied ecologyThe course will provide the ecological systems knowledge needed to question applied sustainability solutions. We will
critically assess the complexity of current environmental issues, illustrating bas
ENV-220: Fundamentals in ecologyThe students will learn the fundamentals in ecology with the goal to perceive the environment beyond its physical and chemical characteristics. Starting from basic concepts, they will acquire mechanis
ENG-410: Energy supply, economics and transitionThis course examines energy systems from various angles: available resources, how they can be combined or substituted, their private and social costs, whether they can meet the energy demand, and how
HUM-471: Economic growth and sustainability IThis course examines growth from various angles: economic growth, growth in the use of resources, need for growth, limits to growth, sustainable growth, and, if time permits, population growth and gro
ENV-410: Science of climate changeThe course equips students with a comprehensive scientific understanding of climate change covering a wide range of topics from physical principles, historical climate change, greenhouse gas emissions
MGT-534: Strategic partnershipStrategic partnerships is about better understanding the lifecycle of alliances and ecosystems.It concerns how to strategize, scout, structure, start, and steer strategic partnerships to maximize trus
ENV-306: EcotoxicologyEcotoxicology aims to understand the impact of chemicals and other stressors on organisms in the environment with a particular focus on population-, community- and ecosystem effects. Based on a mechan
AR-619: Designing cities in a changing worldThis course develops, within the urban domain, a critical review of challenges/opportunities of the One Health concept, based on the inexorable link between human, animal, and ecosystem health.
AR-301(ac): Studio BA5 (Bosshard et Vaquer)The term sauvegarde is approached holistically from the side of care with the will to assist, protect, and therefore save. Design proposals grow out of the will to understand, looking for an overall c
AR-401(ac): Studio MA1 (Bosshard et Vaquer)The term sauvegarde is approached holistically from the side of care with the will to assist, protect, and therefore save. Design proposals grow out of the will to understand, looking for an overall c
AR-302(af): Studio BA6 (Tsuneyama)Urban Wild Ecology / Production and Decomposition Urbanism / SOIL studio focuses on earth-conscious construction methods and materials that return to the soil. A radical vision will be sought to incor
AR-402(af): Studio MA2 (Tsuneyama)Urban Wild Ecology / Production and Decomposition Urbanism / SOIL studio focuses on earth-conscious construction methods and materials that return to the soil. A radical vision will be sought to incor
AR-401(af): Studio MA1 (Tsuneyama)Urban Wild Ecology / Production and Decomposition Urbanism / FOOD studio examines urban collective housing integrating a self-sustaining cycle of food, from production to disposal. A highly contextual
