Discovery modules Creating Sustainable Futures discovery modules

Discover the environmental, social and economic issues facing society, such as climate change and poverty.

This Theme is part of the Sustainable Curriculum Principle and the University's Climate Plan.

You can start your sustainability journey at Leeds by taking the Sustainability Induction that is for all students and staff. It introduces sustainability concepts, challenges facing the world and the University's policies, programmes and systems. They also cover our roles at and outside the University in making a positive difference.

Benefits of enrolling on a Creating Sustainable Futures discovery module

Increase your employability potential by having the sustainability knowledge and skills that companies, public institutions, government and civil society now require.

Learn about the global and local challenges that are shaping our world such as the human cost of cheap consumer goods (poor working conditions, financial inequalities) or the impact of climate change (flooding and droughts). Understand what a sustainable future might look like and how can we best manage change.

Modules in this theme will expose you to a range of different tools and approaches that can be used in tackling such problems. You can learn more about solving sustainability issues at work, in communities or as part of individual lifestyles.

You can also be part of the ‘campus living laboratory’ scheme alongside the University’s Sustainability Service.

Creating Sustainable Futures discovery modules

Getting Involved in Sustainability modules for the 2024/25 academic year

This sub-theme is part of the ‘campus living laboratory’ scheme which organises research projects, case studies and practical opportunities for students - both on campus and in the wider city.

You can get involved in various types of research project (short projects, practicals, group work, field-trips), take part in ecology surveys and laboratory work, or volunteer with local companies.

There are seven modules available.

If you are an incoming year one student you should only choose level 1 modules.

Introduction to Creating Sustainable Futures

Module level: 1
Module code: SOEE1610

Read about the Introduction to Creating Sustainable Futures module in the module catalogue.

Transport Policy in Action

Module level: 1
Module code: TRAN1021

Read about the Transport Policy in Action module in the module catalogue.

Transport, Energy and Environment

Module level: 2
Module code: TRAN2041

Read about the Transport, Energy and Environment module in the module catalogue.

Transport, People and Place

Module level: 2
Module code: TRAN2066

Read about the Transport, People and Place module in the module catalogue.

Enterprise Consultancy

Module level: 3
Module code: LUBS3013

Read about the Enterprise Consultancy module in the module catalogue.

Managing Global Value Chains

Module level: 3
Module code: LUBS3966

Read about the Managing Global Value Chains module in the module catalogue.

Terrestrial Biosphere in the Earth System

Module level: 3
Module code: SOEE3760

Read about the Terrestrial Biosphere in the Earth System module in the module catalogue.

Managing Sustainability: About Sustainability modules for the 2024/25 academic year

Learn about how organisations at all levels deal with local and global challenges.

Understand how transport or food sector organisations take on issues like climate change or global inequalities.

Using historical and case study approaches from engineering, management, and science, learn how cities and countries deal with sustainability issues. See how mistakes are made, study successful solutions and explore new alternative visions and scenarios.

There are eight modules available.

If you are an incoming year one student you should only choose level 1 modules.

Understanding Social Enterprises

Module level: 1
Module code: LUBS1010

Read more about the Understanding Social Enterprises module in the module catalogue.

Introduction to Business, Environment and Corporate Responsibility

Module level: 1
Module code: SOEE1390

Read more about the Introduction to Business, Environment and Corporate Responsibility module in the module catalogue.

Introduction to Creating Sustainable Futures

Module level: 1
Module code: SOEE1610

Read more about the Introduction to Creating Sustainable Futures module in the module catalogue.

Transport Policy in Action

Module level: 1
Module code: TRAN1021

Read more about the Transport Policy in Action module in the module catalogue.

Sustainable Food Production

Module level: 2
Module code: BLGY2225

Read more about the Sustainable Food Production module in the module catalogue.

Social Ecological Systems

Module level: 2
Module code: GEOG2661

Read more about the Social Ecological Systems module in the module catalogue.

Transport, Energy and Environment

Module level: 2
Module code: TRAN2041

Read more about the Transport, Energy and Environment module in the module catalogue.

Managing Global Value Chains

Module level: 3
Module code: LUBS3966

Read more about the Managing Global Value Chains module in the module catalogue.

Managing Sustainability: Skills for Sustainable Futures modules for the 2024/25 academic year

Gain and practise employability skills for managing sustainability in the workplace. Learn how to incorporate environmental sustainability and social justice into decision-making, organisations and governance structures.

Modules in this sub-theme will help you understand how institutions and organisations work and how they influence society. This sub-theme introduces key methods and tools for changing the path of organisations that are transferable across topics and institutions.

There are 17 modules available.

If you are an incoming year one student you should only choose level 1 modules.

Principles of International Business

Module level: LUBS1140
Module code: 1

Read more about the Principles of International Business module in the module catalogue.

Introduction to Management

Module level: LUBS1170
Module code: 1

Read more about the Introduction to Management module in the module catalogue.

Business and Society (Combined)

Module level: 1
Module code: LUBS1755

Read more about the Business and Society (Combined) module in the module catalogue.

Business and Society (Organisation Theory)

Module level: 1
Module code: LUBS1760

Read more about the Business and Society (Organisation Theory) module in the module catalogue.

Business and Society (Social Theory)

Module level: 1
Module code: LUBS1765

Read more about the Business and Society (Social Theory) module in the module catalogue.

Introduction to Effective Decision Making

Module level: 1
Module code: LUBS1785

Read more about the Introduction to Effective Decision Making module in the module catalogue.

Introduction to Creating Sustainable Futures

Module level: 1
Module code: SOEE1610

Read more about the Introduction to Creating Sustainable Futures module in the module catalogue.

Contemporary Industrial Relations

Module level: 2
Module code: LUBS2060

Read more about the Contemporary Industrial Relations module in the module catalogue.

People in Organisations

Module level: 2
Module code: LUBS2150

Read more about the People in Organisations module in the module catalogue.

Principles of Corporate Strategy

Module level: 2
Module code: LUBS2660

Read more about the Principles of Corporate Strategy module in the module catalogue.

Transport, Land Use and Development

Module level: 2
Module code: TRAN2020

Read more about the Transport, Land Use and Development module in the module catalogue.

Transport, Energy and Environment

Module level: 2
Module code: TRAN2041

Read more about the Strategic Human Resource Management module in the module catalogue.

Transport and Social Sustainability

Module level: 2
Module code: TRAN2065

Read more about the Transport and Social Sustainability module in the module catalogue.

Gender and Equality at Work in Comparative Perspective

Module level: 3
Module code: LUBS3001

Read more about the Gender and Equality at Work in Comparative Perspective module in the module catalogue.

Diversity Management

Module level: 3
Module code: LUBS3002

Read more about the Diversity Management module in the module catalogue.

Strategic Human Resource Management

Module level: 3
Module code: LUBS3855

Read more about the Strategic Human Resource Management module in the module catalogue.

International Development and Social Policy

Module level:3
Module code: PIED3207

Read more about the International Development and Social Policy module in the module catalogue.

Science for Sustainability modules for the 2024/25 academic year

Gain a broad-based understanding of how the natural environment works and use tools and techniques from ecology, environmental science, geography, engineering, transport and mathematics to develop practical solutions to the world’s problems.

Learn how infrastructure solutions in engineering and transport are attempting to solve key sustainability issues.

Gain practical hands-on experience in the laboratory and in the field as well as learning from key case studies.

There are 14 modules available.

If you are an incoming year one student you should only choose level 1 modules.

Using Biology to Feed the World

Module level: 1
Module code: BLGY1212

Read more about the Using Biology to Feed the World module in the module catalogue.

Atmosphere

Module level: 1
Module code: SOEE1281

Read more about the Atmosphere module in the module catalogue.

Introduction to Creating Sustainable Futures

Module level: 1
Module code: SOEE1610

Read more about the Introduction to Creating Sustainable Futures module in the module catalogue.

Sustainable Food Production

Module level: 2
Module code: BLGY2225

Read more about the Sustainable Food Production module in the module catalogue.

Introduction to Oceanography

Module level: 2
Module code: SOEE2110

Read more about the Introduction to Oceanography module in the module catalogue.

Climate Change: Science and Impacts

Module level: 2
Module code: SOEE2160

Read more about the Climate Change: Science and Impacts module in the module catalogue.

Atmospheric Pollution From Local to Global Scaled

Module level: 2
Module code: SOEE2481

Read more about the Atmospheric Pollution From Local to Global Scaled module in the module catalogue.

Transport Land Use and Development

Module level: 2
Module code: TRAN2020

Read more about the Transport Land Use and Development module in the module catalogue.

Transport, Energy and Environment

Module level: 2
Module code: TRAN2041

Read more about the Transport, Energy and Environment module in the module catalogue.

Transport, People and Place

Module level: 2
Module code: TRAN2066

Read more about the Transport, People and Place module in the module catalogue.

Science and Society: The Critical Interface

Module level: 2
Module code: CHEM2200

Read more about the Science and Society: The Critical Interface module in the module catalogue.

Tropical Forests and Sustainable Development

Module level: 3
Module code: GEOG3690

Read more about the Tropical Forests and Sustainable Development module in the module catalogue.

Atmosphere and Ocean Climate Change Processes

Module level: 3
Module code: SOEE3410

Read more about the Atmosphere and Ocean Climate Change Processes module in the module catalogue.

Strategic Energy Issues

Module level: 3
Module code: SOEE3630

Read more about the Strategic Energy Issues module in the module catalogue.

Terrestrial Biosphere in the Earth System

Module level: 3
Module code: SOEE3760

Read more about the Terrestrial Biosphere in the Earth System module in the module catalogue.

Society and sustainability: About Sustainability modules for the 2024/25 academic year

These modules explore governance structures, economic systems and political processes of the environmental, social and economic aspects of sustainability.

Learn from historical and agricultural examples of tackling sustainability issues. Gain knowledge of the development, poverty and power relations between countries and regions with differing economic and political stages. View sustainability from the view of consumers and urban settings.

There are 13 modules available.

If you are an incoming year one student you should only choose level 1 modules.

Global Development challenges

Modules level: 1
Module code: PIED1201

Read more about the Global Development challenges module in the module catalogue.

Contemporary Africas: Politics, Society and the Environment

Modules level: 1
Module code: PIED1806

Read more about the Contemporary Africas: Politics, Society and the Environment module in the module catalogue.

Introduction to Creating Sustainable Futures

Modules level: 1
Module code: SOEE1610

Read more about the Introduction to Creating Sustainable Futures module in the module catalogue.

Social Ecological Systems

Modules level: 2
Module code: GEOG2661

Read more about the Social Ecological Systems module in the module catalogue.

Cross-Cultural Management

Modules level: 2
Module code: LUBS2405

Read more about the Cross-Cultural Management module in the module catalogue.

North-South Linkages

Modules level: 2
Module code: PIED2220

Read more about the North-South Linkages module in the module catalogue.

Transport, Energy and Environment

Modules level: 2
Module code: TRAN2041

Read more about the Transport, Energy and Environment module in the module catalogue.

Transport and Social Sustainability

Modules level: 2
Module code: TRAN2065

Read more about the Transport and Social Sustainability module in the module catalogue.

Transport, People and Place

Modules level: 2
Module code: TRAN2066

Read more about the Transport, People and Place module in the module catalogue.

Creative Alternative Futures

Modules level: 3
Module code: GEOG3291

Read more about the Creative Alternative Futures module in the module catalogue.

Geographies of Global Insecurities: New Dynamics

Modules level: 3
Module code: GEOG3291

Read more about the Geographies of Global Insecurities: New Dynamics module in the module catalogue.

Creative Interventions in the City

Modules level: 3
Module code: LLLC3983

Read more about the Creative Interventions in the City module in the module catalogue.

Healthy Cities: Transport and Health

Modules level: 3
Module code: TRAN3070

Read more about the Healthy Cities: Transport and Health module in the module catalogue.

Society and Sustainability: Skills for Sustainable Futures modules for the 2024/25 academic year

If you want to understand citizenship and the relationship between community and identity; to develop skills in international development, justice and globalization; or to gain an understanding of economics and transport planning – these modules are for you.

Get a truly global and multi-disciplinary view of sustainability issues and solutions by grappling with equality and ethics in practice. Gain the necessary insights to influence civil, political, economic and legal systems for a better, more sustainable future.

There are 17 modules available.

If you are an incoming year one student you should only choose level 1 modules.