The Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (OSEH) aims to experiment with new forms of teaching in the Anthropocene. Through collaborative lectures, experimental seminars, and field excursions, students will learn to better understand and address the environmental challenges of our times.
Honours Certificate in Environmental Humanities and Sciences
From climate change and biodiversity loss, to accumulating toxins and emerging diseases, we are increasingly faced with challenges that are simultaneously social and environmental in nature. The Honours Certificate in Environmental Humanities and Sciences (EHS) will deepen your understanding of the complex relationships between humans and their environments in a rapidly changing world.
- Type of programme: Master's Supplement/ Honours Certificate
- Application portal opens: 15 September
- Application deadline: 15 October
- Start of studies: January
Other environmental courses offered at the University of Oslo
The Faculty of Humanities
Bachelor
Master
All courses offered at the Faculty of Humanities
Centre for Development and the Environment
Master
- SUM4019 – Consumption, Sustainability and Social Change
- SUM4029 – Global Governance for Sustainable Development
- SUM4030 – Environmental Humanities
- SUM4200 – Advanced Introduction to Development and Environment
- SUM4501 – Achieving the SDGs: Global Goals and National Interests
- SUM4502 – INCLUDE – Socially Inclusive Energy Transition
- SUM4504 – International Political Economy of Energy
- SUM4505 – Capitalism, Corruption and the Climate Crisis
All courses offered at the Centre for Development and the Environment
The Faculty of Social Sciences
Bachelor
- SGO2302 – Environment and society
- SGO3200 – Sustainability Transitions, Innovation and Social Change
- ECON2920 – Environmental and natural resource economics (discontinued)
- SOSANT2510 – Environmental Anthropology
- SOSANT2525 – Overheating: The anthropology of accelerated change
Master
- STV4341 – Comparative Environmental Politics
- STV4424 – Climate, Energy and Environmental Governance
- STV4282B – The Politics of Global Energy
- HGO4203 – Sustainable Urban Transformations
- HGO4301 – The Social Dimensions of Environmental Change
- HGO4302 – Transformations to sustainability
- HGO4601 – Economic geography: Institutions, evolution and sustainability transitions
- ECON4910 – Environmental Economics
All courses offered at the Faculty of Social Sciences
The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Bachelor
- BIOS1001 – Evolution, Ecology and the Anthropocene: Introduction to Bioscience (discontinued)
- GEO3032 – Climate Change and Impacts
- GEO3100 – Environmental Geology
- KJM1700 – Environment and Climate Challenges
Master
- BIO4331 – Human Impact on the Marine Environment (continued)
- BIOS4120 – Norwegian nature - typification, description and mapping of natural variation based on "Natur i Norge" (NiN)
- BIOS5112 – Life-history strategies and climate effects
- BIOS5411 – Toxicants in ecosystems and humans: Effects
- BIOS5412 – Toxicants in Ecosystems and Humans: Exposure and Accumulation
- GEO4100 – Environmental Geology
- GEO4140 – Environmental stratigraphy
- GEO4161 – Contaminants in the Geoenvironment
- GEO5911 – CO2 storage - Physical and chemical processes
- GEO5915 – Ecological Climatology