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Sustainability
Minor
Sustainability
Offering Academic Unit
School of Energy and Environment
Note: The following curriculum information is subject to periodic review and changes.

Aims of Minor

This minor aims to:
    1. provide students with a basic understanding of the sustainability issues and enhance their ability to address practical issues; and
    2. enhance students’ ability to integrate environmental, political, cultural, social, economic and technology aspects into the concept of sustainability 

    Intended Learning Outcomes of Minor (MINILOs)

    Upon successful completion of this minor, students should be able to:
     
      1. identify the ethical aspects of sustainability
      2. realize the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability
      3. develop processes to integrate different themes of sustainability
      4. apply what have learnt about sustainability to the real world

    Minor Requirements (15 credit units)Catalogue Term : Semester A 2024/25



    1. Core Courses (3 credit units)
    Course CodeCourse TitleCredit Units
    SEE2204Principles of Sustainability3

    2. Electives (12 credit units)

    Any four courses from the following electives.  Constraints on the choice of the electives are as follows:
    - The student can take at most one GE course.
    - At least one course should come outside their home College or School.
    - The four electives should be from each of the three key themes, i.e. “Economic and Policy”, “Environmental and Technical” and “Social and Cultural”.

    Also note that double counting of the credits is not possible: any credit counting for a Major cannot count for the Minor. Therefore, any student following the major in Environmental Science and Engineering will have to replace “Principles of Sustainability” with another course to be agreed on by the Minor Leader and the Dean of SEE.

    Key theme: Economic and Policy
    Course CodeCourse TitleCredit UnitsRemarks
    GE1205Green Economics3
    GE2220Sustainable Business: Doing Good Business While Doing Good3
    EF3040Economics of Environment3
    LW3956Environment and Law3
    PIA2224Environmental Issues and Sustainable Development3
    PIA2400Introduction to Ethics and Public Policy3
    PIA3206Environmental Issues, Policy and Ethics3
    SEE3001Energy and Environmental Policy3prerequisites required for this elective

    Key theme: Environmental and Technical
    Course CodeCourse TitleCredit UnitsRemarks
    GE1337Urban Green City: Pollution and Solution3
    GE2306Energy and Technology3
    GE2327Green and Intelligent Buildings3
    GE2329Green Buildings: Discovery and Innovations3
    CA4174Sustainability and Building Systems Integration3
    CHEM3055Green Chemistry3prerequisites required for this elective
    CHEM4021Environmental Pollution4
    CHEM4021AEnvironmental Pollution3
    CHEM4023Biological Treatment of Wastes4
    CHEM4023ABiological Treatment of Wastes3
    CHEM4034Environmental Control and Waste Treatment4
    CHEM4039Environmental Conservation and Resources Management4
    CHEM4039AEnvironmental Conservation and Resources Management3
    MNE4046Green Industrial Systems3prerequisites required for this elective
    MSE4176Energy Materials for the Current Century3
    PIA2528Urban Planning and Sustainable Cities3
    PIA3207Health Care Policy and Ethics3
    SEE3104Sustainable and Renewable Energy3prerequisites required for this elective
    SEE3202Integrated Sustainability3prerequisites required for this elective
    SEE3204Urban Sustainability3prerequisites required for this elective
    SEE3205Urban Sustainability3prerequisites required for this elective
    SEE4112Sustainable Engineering Systems: Modelling and Analysis3prerequisites required for this elective
    SEE4114Bioenergy Engineering: Principles and Applications3prerequisites required for this elective
    SEE4116Energy and Carbon Auditing3prerequisites required for this elective
    SEE4117Solar Energy Engineering3prerequisites required for this elective

    Key theme: Social and Cultural
    Course CodeCourse TitleCredit UnitsRemarks
    GE1339Wireless Connectivity in Modern Society3
    GE2303Save the Earth: Sustainable Development3
    EE3012Engineers in Society3prerequisites required for this elective
    PIA3034Environmental Challenges in Asia and the World3
    PIA4071Globalisation and the Environment3
    PIA4201International Relations: Conflict and Cooperation on Environment and Resources Problems3
    SM3138Creative City and Urban Critique3
    SM3703Media Art and the Environment3
    SM3726Sustainable Art and Design3
    SS4585Social Capital and Sustainable Development3