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University: Kathmandu University
Course: Ethics of Sustainable Development
Credit: Smart Certificate
Duration: Two Weeks
Online, live, and engaging. This isn’t your standard online class! Advance your global sustainability experience in just two weeks, from anywhere in the world.
Join TGP’s online program experience: A two-week, engaging online certificate course. Discover the theories and practices of ethical, sustainable development around the world, with a special focus on developing countries.
- Understand the cycles and persistence of poverty and inequality
- Engage in provoking discussions in LIVE classes with a global cohort
- Advance your career and gain job insights with TGP’s Smart Certificate, and more!
Course Description
This online course, “Ethics of Sustainable Development”, provides an introduction to the theories and practice of sustainable development with a special focus on developing countries. Development has been a contested concept and has had its share of controversies. The fact that poverty and inequality in many poor countries has not reduced significantly, in spite of significant international effort, has posed both conceptual and practical problems.
The recent focus on sustainable development has been a result of alarming environmental and climate degradation, but also because of a conscious effort in advocating for this issue throughout the world. With the intention of teaching this topic from different perspectives and angles, this course will also analyze the critiques of sustainable development too. Students will gain knowledge analyzing various case studies of ethical, human sustainable development around the world.
At the end of the course, students will apply their newfound knowledge to an entrepreneurial solution at the TGP Capstone Workshop, an agile version of TGP’s Capstone Project.
Objectives and Outcomes
The objective of this course is to discover theories of development, study human development indicators and strategies, and engage in provoking conversations around the intersections of ethics and human development with a diverse cohort of sustainability leaders. See below for the course outcomes.
Program Dates Now Enrolling:
Nov 6-20, 2023
Academic credits: Smart Certificate
Length: Two weeks
Program Fee:
Single Pay: $975
Payment Plan: $255/month for 5 months
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A safe and effective way to gain the knowledge of global sustainability from industry leaders and local professors. Expand your knowledge and experience from anywhere in the world.
Advance your career
Using machine learning with your block-chain certificate, we’ll connect the skills that you gained will with the jobs available right away. Also, gain access to TGP’s alumni network of over 3,200 sustainability leaders and career opportunities.
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Instantly boost your resume and gain the most in-demand skill sets for today’s career fields. Our block-chain certificate is the professional proof you’ll need to advance your career.
For students & professionals
Whether you’re a university student, gap year student, recent graduate, or young professional, this course welcomes participants who are motivated to gain an introductory course to renewable energy no matter the stage of your profession.
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Curriculum Highlights
Gain global perspectives and learn from international faculty from Kathmandu University’s School of Development Studies in Nepal.
Course Outcomes
Earn a Smart Certificate built for career impact
Upon completion, you’ll receive a digital Smart Certificate as your certificate of completion.
Boost your LinkedIn, see who’s hiring, and gain access to real job-insights and data.
Accurate insights tied to real skills
We take the guesswork out of the outcomes. Gain job insights that are tied directly to the skills & learning outcomes of the course.
Your digital certificate uses block-chain and machine learning technology that will showcase each skill’s career value and connects you with real jobs that require those skills.
More metrics, more value
Get even more insight into the job market by receiving salary ranges specific to your certification’s skills and which companies are interested in hiring the skills that your certification provides.Identify the employers that have the biggest demand for skills that you attained through your TGP course.
Job insight data
Your smart certificate will connect your credentials with real-time job data from around the world. The job data that our partners use is gathered from 65,000 global information sources; 143 gigs of raw data every day!
Using machine learning and statistical insights we’re able to connect the skills that you gain with the jobs available today.
Helping to improve impactful careers
TGP’s smart certificates enables participants to explore the roles that are available to them once you complete the course.Real-time, open jobs are just a few clicks away from your certificate. We’re ready to start delivering career impact directly!Meet your professor
Dr. Sagar Sharma is a professor and former Dean of The School of Arts and The School of Development Studies at Kathmandu University.
Dr. Sharma has a PhD in Development Economics and specializes in teaching entrepreneurship and development, human dimensions of development, and Nepal’s plans and policies. Dr. Sharma’s area of expertise is in land reform, food security, migration, foreign aid, and development.
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*Open to students and professionals of all disciplines. Must be at least 18 years old.
What TGP alumni are saying about this course
Carly C
Environmental Health Engineering, Michigan State University
This two-week online course was engaging and eye-opening. This course focused on the importance of ethics in sustainable development and the theories and practices behind it. Dr. Sharma encouraged us to engage in insightful, inclusive, and head-scratching discussions in an open and safe (virtual) environment. After taking this course I will definitely approach future projects and problems from a new, different, and more inclusive angle.
Jaedyn M
Renewable Natural Resource Student, Texas A&M University NC State
This was the most well facilitated class I ever took online (and I've spent three semesters taking online classes for my university). I can honestly say that I felt way more connected to people that I knew I was never going to meet in person who were thousands of miles away from me than I did with people that I could more easily access or potentially meet on campus. Programs like these will be the future of intersectional education abroad, and will go a long way in achieving the sustainable development goals.
Janice W
Human Geography Student, University of Toronto
This is my second time being with TGP. Every time, TGP blows my mind and I gain new knowledge. I love how our conversations explode every class. It's very different from all of my other courses and a great change for me. I enjoyed doing the capstone project again and every time it's really rewarding and I always learn something new. I would highly recommend students to take this course as it is very applicable in many fields of study.
Bianca H
Architecture and Urban Studies Student, Virginia Tech
This class was really great. Best virtual course I have attended so far! I loved the fluidity of the class and how the professor guided the class discussion while still being unassuming and allowing everyone to express their own opinions, especially in the tough and controversial conversations we had. Everyone's perspective was welcome and respected. I really liked hearing different perspectives and being challenged to think outside of my initial understanding, and realizing that different countries need different solutions. Would highly recommend taking it!
Pricing
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Your first step is to complete and submit an application. Upon acceptance, a TGP member will reach out to you with your next steps for enrollment. We look forward to traveling with you soon! (Please note that spots fill on a first-come, first-serve basis.)