Teaching
The faculties of the University of Lucerne teach sustainability in numerous courses and impart the necessary skills for sustainable patterns of thought and action.
Course Catalogue "Sustainability"
In the course catalogue of the University of Lucerne, it is possible to search for courses, that have been classified as relevant to sustainability by the course organizers, with the keyword "Sustainability".
Sustainable Curriculum
Below is a selection of courses related to sustainability from various faculties. Courses related to environmental sustainability from the previous year are listed in the Sustainability Report.
The Faculty of Theology conveys sustainable values in a range of courses. Here are a few examples:
- Digital transformation and artificial intelligence from an ethical perspective (Prof. Peter Kirchschläger)
- Business and financial ethics (Prof. Peter Kirchschläger)
- Lucerne Graduate School in Ethics (LGSE): Colloquium on Theological Ethics for students with Master's theses, doctoral students and post-doctoral students (Prof. Peter Kirchschläger)
- Without human rights internally paralyzed as a human rights advocate externally? Human rights and the Catholic Church (Prof. Peter Kirchschläger/Prof. Adrian Loretan)
- Introduction to canon law and state-church law (Prof. Adrian Loretan)
- Applications of Practical Theology - Park and Church Pews (Prof. Christian Preidel)
- Introduction to Virtue Epistemology (Prof. Margit Wasmaier-Sailer)
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences teaches sustainability in its subject-specific seminars. Sustainability is addressed in the following seminars, among others:
- Ethnology of Human Rights and Justice (MA Nicole Ahoya)
- Ethnicity, Territory and Political Conflict in Europe (Dr. Jean Thomas Arrighi de Casanova)
- The Comparative Politics of Global Climate Change (Prof. Genovese)
- Morality and Organization (Prof. Roman Gibel)
- Climate, War and Consumption: Topics in Applied Ethics (Prof. Martin Hartmann)
- Sociology of the Crisis (Dr. Sebastian Winfried Hoggenmüller)
- The refugee crisis. Mass media discourses and political decision-making (Prof. Adrian Itschert)
- Policy analysis in times of climate change (Dr. Stefan Rieder)
- Local livelihoods, global interdependencies: Introduction to Economic Anthropology
- Politics of Climate Change (Prof. Lena Maria Schaffer)
- Sociocul-Tour: Social City Life & Megatrends (MA Fabienne Schellenberg)
- Legitimacy of International Institutions: From the EU over Human Rights bodies to the UN Securita Council (Prof. Antoinette Scherz)
- Introduction to Environmental Ethnology (Prof. Tobias Schwörer)
- Theory of World Society (Prof. Rudolf Stichweh)
- Organization and Sustainability (BA Jennifer Widmer)
The Faculty of Law offers a number of interesting courses that deal with specific topics of sustainability in law. A list of examples follows:
- Agricultural law (Prof. Roland Norer)
- Energy and climate law (Dr. Markus Schreiber)
- Health Law (Prof. Bernhard Rütsche)
- International Environmental Law (Prof. Thilo Marauhn)
- Law of Sustainable Development (Prof. Klaus Mathis, Dr. Charlotte Sieber)
- Environmental Law (Prof. Roland Norer)
The Master's profile "Law, Technology and Sustainability" can be acquired. Sustainability is also addressed in other courses on an interdisciplinary basis.
In addition, the lecture series on the law of sustainable use of natural resources and the CAS Agricultural Law offer an interesting range of further education courses.
The Faculty of Economics and Management teaches important tools and knowledge for sustainable management and thus promotes sustainable development:
- Corporate risks and responsibility (lic. rer. pol. Elvira Bieri)
- Economic policy (Prof. Christoph A. Schaltegger)
- Climate policy (Prof. Micheal M. Bechtel)
- Empirical environmental economics (Dr. Benjamin Krebs)
- Innovation Management (Dr. Bernhard Lingens)
- Economic History (Assistant Professor Christian Ochsner)
- Growth Theory (Prof. Manuel Oechslin)
- Recent topics in international economic development (Prof. Manuel Oechslin/Dr. Elias Steiner)
- Global Marketing (Christina Sichtmann)
- Management of Health Organizations (Károly Christian Köpe)
- Ethics and Critical Marketing (Paolo Antonetti, PhD)
The Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine emphasizes the role of sustainability in medicine and public health in its courses:
- Topics in Health and Social Policy (Prof. Stefan Boes/ Dr. Kathryn Ann Dawson-Townsend/Dr. Samuel Lordemus/Dr. Renate Strobl/Dr. Harry Telser/Dr. Cornel Kaufmann)
- Longitudinal and Life Course Epidemiology (Dr. Martin Brinkhof/MA Collene Anderson)
- Health, Man, Society (Dr. Flora Colledge/Dr. Astrid Rimbach)
Since the fall semester 2024, the University of Lucerne is offering a Master's in Climate Politics, Economics, and Law (CPEL), which teaches the instruments of climate protection in an interdisciplinary way.
