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Sustainable Development Online - Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
Faculty of Business & Media via distance learning
Sustainable Development via distance learning
This program of sustainable development deals with the human, social, economic and environmental aspects of sustainability, so that any present development does not compromise the ability and resources of future generations to meet their own needs. Sustainability goals address global challenges, including poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, recycled materials, renewable resources, peace and justice.
Academic Supervisor : Nadège Noële Ango-Obiang
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Sustainable Development Online via distance learning
Specialist, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor - Sustainable Development.
This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's & Ph.D. (Doctor) Degree Programs. This academic program is designed at the postgraduate level (Master’s or Doctoral). This module may also be adapted to complete the course requirements of Specialist, Expert Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree. A further option is the enrollment into each of the courses listed within this specialization module. This module may be combined or completed with other modules from this faculty. For example: Agroecology - Bioethics - Circular Economy - Community & Social Development - International Cooperation - Landscape Architecture - Natural Ecosystems Management - Renewable Energies - Sustainable Agriculture - Sustainable Architecture - Urban Planning & Design .
Specialist - Expert Diploma - Sustainable Development Online
Tuition Fee: 1.050 Euros (1.350 US$) ... 1.470 Euros (1.890 US$).
Specialist - Expert Diploma Online: 15 ... 21 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Sustainable Development via distance learning = 54 Academic credits - Select 5 courses for the online diploma of Specialist or 7 courses for the Expert Diploma from the total of courses from the specialization module.
Bachelor's Degree - Sustainable Development Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 3.510 Euros (4.420 US$) ... Max. 6.800 Euros (8.700 US$).
Bachelor's Degree Online: 130 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Sustainable Development via distance learning = 54 Academic credits + 40 credits in General Education (may be transferred from previous education and professional experience) + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Circular Economy.
Master's Degree - Sustainable Development Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 4.680 Euros (6.120 US$) ... Max. 7.020 Euros (9.180 US$).
Master's Degree Online: 36 ... 54 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Sustainable Development via distance learning = 54 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Circular Economy. + 13 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree - Sustainable Development Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 5.850 Euros (7.650 US$) ... Max. 9.360 Euros (12.240 US$).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree Online: 45 ... 72 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Sustainable Development via distance learning = 54 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Circular Economy. + 18 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Payment plans are available upon request up to 36 monthly installments. More info...
BIU adapts each Distance Learning Higher Education degree program to the needs of each student. More info...
Sustainable Development Online
Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 academic credits):
1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credits (30 hours of study).
You may study any subject as an independent online continuing education course. More info...
Social Welfare
This course analyses the nature and impact of economic/political/social ideologies in addition to the forces that shaped the evolution of western and other civilizations' responses to the poor, unemployed, sick and disabled, displaced, children-and-families-at-risk, widows and orphans, and racial/ethnic minorities.
Academic Supervisor: Djaber Nacer Eddine
Land Use Planning
This course presents the properties that govern the use of soil for plant growth and construction engineering purposes. It emphasizes on sustainable use and conservation. It identifies soil resources for human needs and the management of soil landscape data to ameliorate the environmental impact of human activities.
Academic Supervisor: Mina Benjouali
Environmental Impact
This course presents both the theoretical and practical aspects of assessing environmental impact in order to support a policy that leads to the restoration and conservation of animal and plant diversity. It covers the structure and function of disturbed ecosystems and provides adequate the means to evaluate environmental degradation levels and the impact of human activity on environmental health and contamination.
Academic Supervisor: Gonzalo de la Fuente de Val
Housing & Community Facilities
This course surveys housing and community development problems and standards. It explores issues of culture, political environment, social context, economic circumstances, and other factors which define and limit housing facilities and delivery. It integrates housing with community facilities such parks, schools, drainage, sewerage, utilities, libraries, solid waste, and transportation.
Academic Supervisor: Francis Wambua Mulwa
Human Habitat
This course studies the concepts, methods, techniques, and applications for the analysis of the human habitat, settlements, distribution, population, and cultural environment. It explores the relation of human habitats with available land space, geography, overpopulation, and ecological impact.
Academic Supervisor: Mohammed Said Belkassem
Climate Change
This course studies the science of climate change and the latest available research and scientific data: new patterns of rainfall, droughts, weather events, and global warming. It also analyses the social changes and adaptations that human communities will have to consider, the political implications of climate change, and the ongoing diplomatic efforts.
Academic Supervisor: Eduard Bes Fuster
Alternative Energies
This course explores the usefulness of various types of energies and the application of engineering in designing alternative energy systems. It includes passive and active solar systems, fuel cells, hydroelectric power, geothermal heat transfer, and wind energy. It involves in the inventory, evaluation, planning, design, installation, and maintenance of a wide variety of energy producing systems.
Academic Supervisor: Eduard Bes Fuster
Nonprofit Global Organizations - NGOs
This course examines the role and importance of nonprofit non-governmental or global organizations in the development and support of social needs. It also considers the nature and the resources of the nonprofit sector; the structure, operation, and governance of nonprofit organizations; and the taxation, governmental, and institutional relations of public charities, private foundations, and mutual benefit organizations.
Academic Supervisor: Nadège Noële Ango-Obiang
Third World & Developing Nations
This course surveys the dominant theories of economic development and the meaning of "development vs. growth." It discusses the major characteristics of developing nations and the key constraints and variables of economic and political development: population growth, unemployment, urbanization, migration, agricultural and rural development, education, industrialization, and trade.
Academic Supervisor: Francis Wambua Mulwa
Water & Air Quality
This course reviews the control technologies used for management of air, water, and wastewater pollutants. It examines the characteristics of air and water quality; their physical, chemical, and bacteriological parameters; and control measures primarily filtration, sedimentation, coagulation, absorption, chemical treatment, and aeration.
Academic Supervisor: Eduard Bes Fuster
Sustainability
This course of sustainability focuses on how to protect, preserve and make the smartest possible use of the planet's natural resources. It provides an interdisciplinary perspective of the sustainability concept considering sustainable development, geography, environmental policies, ethics, ecology, landscape architecture, city and regional planning, economics, natural resources, sociology, and anthropology. Sustainability looks to protect our natural environment, human and ecological health, while driving innovation and not compromising our way of life.
Academic Supervisor: Nadège Noële Ango-Obiang
Circular Economy
This course of circular economy explores the design and promotion of products that last and that can be reused, repaired and remanufactured. Circular economy is a production and consumption model that ensures sustainable growth over time. It looks for the optimization of resources, to reduce the consumption of raw materials, and to recover waste by recycling or giving it a second life as a new product.
Academic Supervisor: Nadège Noële Ango-Obiang
Economic Development
This course deals with the performance and problems of developing countries in relation to growth, employment, structural change, and human development. It analyzes several theories and paradigms of development, sources of economic growth, and the policies used to promote industrialization, trade, and sustainability. It considers different development strategies adopted by several countries.
Academic Supervisor: Nadège Noële Ango-Obiang
Health Program Planning
This course presents a systems approach to the planning of effective health services to meet the needs of communities. Plans include effective and culturally appropriate implementation strategies, managing planning process, work plans, stakeholders, negotiation, and working with groups.
Academic Supervisor: Monish Gunawardana
Sustainable Development
This course of sustainable development explores the many processes and pathways to achieve sustainability today without compromising the ability and resources of future generations to meet their own needs. There are four dimensions to sustainable development: society, environment, culture and economy.
Academic Supervisor: Nadège Noële Ango-Obiang
Urban Development
This course explores urban economics and impacts on real estate development. It emphasizes on land allocation, location theory, rent / value theory, factors affecting growth and decline of cities, and the role of governmental regulation, policy, and finance in controlling real estate and urban development.
Academic Supervisor: Dimitrios Nikolaou Koumparoulis
Community & Social Development
This course deals with the sociological factors involved in the development and evolution of society and community. It explains how to deal with economic, health, and social problems, and considers cross cultural social perspectives and diversity in all its forms. It deals with the process of managing and integrating the experience and trajectory of a community towards a new and better global welfare.
Academic Supervisor: Francis Wambua Mulwa
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Sustainable Development Online via distance learning
Recommended Professional References.
Joining the proper association is the best way to become an updated professional.
Bircham International University graduates may join many professional associations. Membership requirements for each association may vary depending on the degree program, specialization and graduate resume en each occasion. BIU can not guarantee membership in all instances. BIU does not intermediate in these procedures. Bircham International University provides a list of available memberships and professional references from each faculty where some BIU graduates may belong. Contact directly the ones you select. More info...
ABRADESA - Associação Brasileira de Desenvolvimento Sustentável da Amazônia
ABRAPS - Associação Brasileira dos Profissionais pelo Desenvolvimento Sustentável
ACESSO - Associação Cultural de Estudos Sociais e Sustentabilidade
ADESAF - Associação de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social às Famílias
ADESP - Associação para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável Participativo
ADSRS - Asociación para el Desarrollo Sostenible y la Responsabilidad Social
AECID - Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo
AIARD - Association for International Agriculture & Rural Development
ALADI - Asociación Latinoamericana de Integración
ALIDE - Asociación Latinoamericana de Instituciones Financieras para el Desarrollo
ASA - Asociación Sostenibilidad y Arquitectura
AVDD - Association des Volontaires du Développement Durable
CDFA - Community Development Finance Association
CDSI - Community Development Society International
CEPAL - Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe
CFSD - Centre for Sustainable Design
CLAD - Centro Latinoamericano de Administracion para el Desarrollo
DDF - Développement Durable en France
ESDN - European Sustainable Development Network
FBDS - Fundação Brasileira para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável
FEDD - Fédération Européenne pour l'Éthique et le Développement Durable
FSD - Federation For Sustainable Development
GFSD - Global Federation For Sustainable Development
IACD - International Association for Community Development
IARUD - International Association for Rural and Urban Development
IASDM - International Association for Sustainable Development and Management
IAVE - International Association for Volunteer Effort
ICSD - International Conference on Sustainable Development
IED - Institute of Economic Development
IFPSD - International Federation for Peace and Sustainable Development
IISD - International Institute for Sustainable Development
IOSD - International Organization for Sustainable Development
ISDRS - International Sustainable Development Research Society
ISDS - International Society for Development and Sustainability
ODN - Organization Development Network
OSDI - Organization for Social Development Initiatives
PTAS - Plataforma Tecnológica de Agricultura Sostenible
RAD - Réseau Agriculture Durable
SDSN - Sustainable Development Solutions Network
SOLIDAIRE - Portail pour des Projet Humanitaire et Solidaire
UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
WASD - World Association for Sustainable Development
WBCSD - World Business Council For Sustainable Development
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Admission requirements - Sustainable Development
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
For official admission status at Bircham distance education university; you need to send in a filled out, dated, and signed official Application for Admission. You may download this application form from the website or request it by email or mail. Please send this application and enclosed documents to our address. You may also submit this application and attached documents by email in a PDF Format. More info...
Bircham International University issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the distance learning degree program's major. Bircham University can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission. More info...
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METHOD OF INSTRUCTION: Distance Learning Higher Education
This distance learning education program is completed by a traditional correspondence instruction method. Once you sign up for the course, Bircham International University will send you (to your mailing address) the suggested textbooks. After reading the book, you will be asked to write a 20 to 35 pages report that reflect your understanding of the book. This report is equivalent to the exam and can be submitted by email or mail. Bircham International University will evaluate your written work. If passed, BIU will issue the corresponding diploma. For more instructions about BIU pedagogy, tutoring, and evaluation, please read our distance learning education study guide. More info...
Students enrolling into this distance education program should be aware that:
1. Location: Bircham International University needs a functional geographical location to ship the book and materials for successful completion of this program of study.
2. Communication: Email, courier, phone are key communication instruments with Bircham University that play an important role in the progress and support of this program of study.
3. Capacity: Any impediment, physical or psychological, to read a book and write a report must be communicated to Bircham International University prior to enrollment into this distance learning program.
4. Technology: No specific technology is required to complete this distance education program.
5. Language: Book reading and report writing in other language than English must be requested (and approved by BIU) prior to enrollment in any distance learning program.
6. Discrimination: There is no discrimination with respect to race, color, gender, beliefs or religion.
7. Age: Check the admission requirements for each distance education degree program. More info...
Duration - Sustainable Development Online via distance learning
For a program of 21 credits, the estimated time for completion is 21 weeks. For 45 credits, the estimated time for completion will be 45 weeks, and so on. Calculations are approximate. The length of each distance learning degree program is calculated based on an average of 15 hours of learning per week. It also depends on the number of validated credits from previous knowledge and the level of commitment to the studies. More info...
All information related to the distance learning degree programs is in English, although you may, upon request and approval, submit the required assignments in other languages.
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Faculty of Business & Media via distance learning
Sustainable Development Online
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
