About GEG
Content
Introduction
Field of study
Content and organisation of the program
The thematic GEG course
Elective courses
Qualifications to be gained
Career opportunities
Admission criteria
How to apply
If you want to know more
Are you interested in social, legal, and natural science perspectives on global environmental governance?
Would you like to complement your MSc studies with a diploma in global environmental governance (GEG) without spending extra time or efforts in graduating?
The GEG educational program incorporates these disciplines, providing the opportunity for students to obtain a global environmental governance diploma concurrently with enrolment in an MSc program.
Global environmental problems are high on the international agenda, reflected in such regimes as the Rio Protocol, the Kyoto Protocol, the UN's Millennium Goals, and COP 15.
Solving global environmental problems entails enormous challenges. The problems and solutions are complex, social consequences differ within the context of local populations, and decisions are being made in a highly politicised environment.
Environmental governance involves a growing number of national and international actors and organisations. It is these and international agreements that increasingly set the agenda for national governments, including requirements of involving local populations in decision making.
This raises questions of how to best organise relations between the many global actors, the global society and the environment.
International institutions and how they are interlinked with national and local levels of governance are at the core of the program.
Read more about the field of study here
The global environmental governance program has the following two elements:
1. The thematic GEG course (7.5 or 10 ECTS)
2. A number of elective courses (adding up to 30 ECTS including the thematic course)
The thematic GEG courses is inter-disciplinary and project oriented, being organised around specific environmental themes such as climate changes, reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), and water resources. The course has teachers from all the involved departments, providing law, political science, natural science, and life science perspectives on global environmental governance issues.
The thematic GEG course is open to all students having a BSc and is compulsory for students aiming to obtain a GEG diploma.
The course generates 7.5 ECTS or 10 ECTS. Students who aim at 7.5 ECTS must enrol at course LNAK10072. Students who aim at 10 ECTS must enrol at course LNAK10087.
The course runs in block 3 c/spring semester.
Find the complete course descriptions here:
GEG 7.5 ECTS
GEG 10 ECTS
Students seeking a GEG diploma must follow 30 ECTS GEG relevant courses including the thematic GEG course. Apart from the GEG course, a minimum of 10 ECTS must be taken outside the student's "home" study.
There are a number of GEG pre-approved courses. Students are also invited to apply for (pre)approval of other relevant courses at University of Copenhagen and/or other Universities, or to obtain credit for time spent as a trainee, for instance, working as an intern for an international organization.
The procedure for (pre)approval of elective courses can be found here. If you are in doubt about a particular course or internship, please contact us.
The elective courses must be passed at MSc level.
Students participating in the GEG program will gain inter-disciplinary competences. They will learn social, political, legal, and natural science aspects of global environmental governance hereby complementing the professional skills taught in the master's program in which the student is enroled.
The GEG specialization gives the student knowledge of:
- The most relevant international organisations, how they work, and how they interact in relation to the task of governing the society-nature relationship.
- Political and institutional issues in the relationship between global, national and local levels of environmental governance
- Natural science aspects of the global environmental problems and their eventual solutions. The main focus is on the green environment.
The GEG specialization gives the student the following skills:
- The ability to understand and link knowledge and insights from their own professional background with corresponding knowledge and insights from other professions including political science, law, life science, and natural sciences.
- The ability to critically evaluate information related to social and physical aspects of global environmental problems and their eventual solutions.
- The ability to work in multidisciplinary teams when addressing global environmental problems.
The GEG specialization gives the student the following competences:
- The student can take technical, natural science and social science aspects into consideration when working with global environmental issues and problems, consequences and solutions.
- The student can bring natural science based knowledge about environmental problems into play in an international political, legal and administrative context.
The GEG program provides added skills to qualified students wishing to pursue a career in international organizations, e.g. the United Nations, national ministries, consultancy companies, private enterprises with strong environmental profiles, NGOs such as WWF and Care, or continue in research.
Students qualify for the thematic GEG course if they have a BSc.
Students qualify for the GEG program if they are enroled in an MSc program in Denmark or abroad.
The thematic GEG course
If you want to follow the thematic GEG courses and are a student at LIFE, you must enrol following the usual procedures for LIFE courses. If you are in doubt about these procedures, please contact the student advisory services at LIFE.
If you want to follow the thematic GEG course and are a student at any other faculty or university, you must follow the usual procedures for credit transfer and/or preliminary approval of courses at your own institute
Find some of the procedures for credit transfer and/or preliminary approval here:
- Procedures at the Faculty of Life Sciences
- Procedures at the Faculty of Law
- Procedures at the Department of Political Science
- Procedures at the Department of Geography & Geology
The thematic GEG course generates 7.5 ECTS or 10 ECTS. Students who aim at 7.5 ECTS must subscribe for course LNAK10072 . Students who aim at 10 ECTS must subscribe for course LNAK10087.
The elective courses
In order to obtain a GEG diploma, you must obtain 30 ECTS GEG relevant credits including the thematic GEG course and a number of elective courses. Apart from the GEG course, a minimum of 10 ECTS must be taken outside the student's "home" study.
There are a number of GEG pre-approved courses. Students are also invited to apply for (pre)approval of other relevant courses and/or for time spent as a trainee, for instance, working as an intern for an international organisation.
For enrolment in an elective course, whether pre-approved or not, you need to follow the procedures of that particular course.
If you are interested in obtaining preliminary approval of elective courses or internships that are not already pre-approved as GEG relevant, please contact us.
The GEG diploma
When you have passed the required courses, you must fill in the format, which you find here, and submit it together with the required documentation stated in the format to Iben Nathan.
You are welcome to contact us if you have any questions about the program
Iben Nathan, - siden er sidst opdateret d.22. december 2011