Common part of the BSc Environmental Sciences

This page shows the courses which belong to the common part of the BSc programme Environmental Sciences.

First year

Below you can find the course schedule for the first year.

BES Courses Year 1
BES Courses Year 1
Course Period
Introduction Environmental Sciences 1
Sustainable Solutions within Planetary Boundaries? 1
General Chemistry 1 1
Mathematics Applied: Introduction or Statistics 1 1
Sustainability Transitions: Past, Present, and Future 2
Statistics 2 2
Water Systems: Exploration 2
Mathematics Applied: Analysis 3
General Chemistry 2 3
Water Systems: Analysis 4
Principles of Soil Processes 4
Modelling Pollution in the Geosphere 5
Intr. Environmental Technology 5
Systems Approach for Socio-Environmental Challenges 6
Global Production-Consumption Systems and the Environment 6

Second year

In the second year you follow courses which are part of the common part of the programme, and specialisation courses which belong to the specialisation that you choose halfway through the second year. Below you can find an overview of the courses in the common part of the programme only. More information about the specialisation courses is available on the specialisations page.

BES Courses Year 2
BES Courses Year 2
Course Period
Ecology 1 1
BES Skills Academy 1
Air Quality 1
Systems of Change: Environmental Policy, Economics, and Law 2
System Earth: Climate and Global Change 2
Introduction Geo-Information Science 3
Specialisation course 4
Specialisation course 5
Microbiology & Toxicology 5
International Environmental Projects in Practice 6

Third year

In the third year you take courses that are related to your specialisation (see the specialisations page) and you spend a consecutive period of six months on free electives. In this period of free electives you will have to select the courses yourself. You could for instance select a minor. At the end of your specialisation, you apply all of your knowledge and skills in an individual study of a topic of your choice.

BES Courses Year 3
BES Courses Year 3