Academic Courses
Boğaziçi University 2023-2024 Semester
Report on Lessons Learned on Environmental Sustainability & Climate Science
In order to convey Environmental Sustainability issues to students at Boğaziçi University from an interdisciplinary framework and to inspire them to lead capacity building actions in the future, the Faculty of Engineering, apart from the Institute of Environmental Sciences, Courses are offered at both undergraduate and graduate levels with an interdisciplinary approach within the scope of environmental sustainability in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Faculty of Management Sciences and Faculty of Education. Faculty members of different departments develop multi-dimensional approaches to SDGs during the program creation process in order to support students to be aware of environmental, social, economic and political sustainability in business life.
In the 2023 – 2024 Period, the departments where Environmental Sustainability and Climate themed courses are offered within the scope of the relevant faculty are as follows:
Institute of Environmental Sciences
- Environmental Sciences (UGRD/GRD- MSc )
- Environmental Technology (GRD- MSc )
Engineering Faculty
- Chemical Engineering (UGRD/GRD)
- Civil Engineering (UGRD/GRD)
- Industrial Engineering
- Computational Science and Engineering (GRD- MSc )
Economics and Administrative Sciences
- Economy
- Business Administration (UGRD/GRD)
- Master of Business Administration (GRD- MSc )
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- Chemistry (UGRD/GRD)
- Physica
- Philosophy
- Sociology
Faculty of Management Sciences
- Tourism management
- International Competition and Trade (GRD-MA)
- Sustainable Tourism (GRD-MA)
Faculty of Education
- Mathematics and Science Education (UGRD/GRD)
2023-2024 Term – Environmental Sustainability Courses Table
When the courses covering Environmental Sustainability and Environment-related subjects are examined in the Fall and Spring Semesters of the 2023-2024 Academic Year, a total of 65 courses were opened, 31 undergraduate and 35 graduate courses.
Department/Institute | Undergraduate Courses | Master's Courses |
Institute of Environmental Sciences | 5 | 16 |
Chemical Engineering | 3 | 2 |
Civil Engineering | 7 | 3 |
Industrial Engineering | one | |
Computational Science and Engineering | 2 | |
Economy | 4 | |
Business | one | one |
Executive MBA | one | |
International Competition and Trade (MA) | one | |
Chemical | one | one |
Physical | 2 | |
Sociology | one | |
Philosophy | one | |
Tourism management | 3 | |
Sustainable Tourism Management | 6 | |
Mathematics and Science Education | 2 | one |
Table 1. Number of Courses Related to Environmental Sustainability and Environment in Boğaziçi University 2023-2024 Academic Year Fall and Spring Semesters
Chart 1. Boğaziçi University Environmental Sustainability Undergraduate Courses by Department in 2023-2024 Term
Chart 2. Boğaziçi University Environmental Sustainability Graduate Courses by Department in 2023-2024
Boğaziçi University 2023-2024 Semester
List of Courses on Environmental Sustainability & Climate Science
Level | Faculty | Department | Course Code | Course Title | Course Descriptions | ECTS |
UGRD | Institute of Environmental Sciences | Environmental Sciences | ESC 301 | The Environmental Dimensions | Understanding environmental problems, an understanding of ecological principles and social issues such as human population growth is needed. | 5 |
UGRD | Institute of Environmental Sciences | Environmental Sciences | ESC 305 | Global Climate Change | Understanding the reasons of climate change problem and thinking critically how we can solve the reasons of the problem | 6 |
UGRD | Institute of Environmental Sciences | Environmental Sciences | ESC 307 | Social Ecology | Critical understanding of the relationship between economic, social and ecological system | 6 |
UGRD | Institute of Environmental Sciences | Environmental Sciences | ESC 315 | Microbes | Sustainable life on earth will solely depend on the products and applications produced by microbes in the future. | 8 |
UGRD | Institute of Environmental Sciences | Environmental Sciences | ESC 351 | Sustainable Development | Causes of climate change, impacts of climate change, actions to tackle climate change | 6 |
GRD | Institute of Environmental Sciences | Environmental Sciences | ESC 509 | Resource Conservation for Energy Fuel & Che | Assessment of related Sustainable Development Goal Indicators for energy and water and material resources of Earth | 8 |
GRD | Institute of EnvironmentalSciences | Environmental Sciences | ESC 528 | Drinking Water Disinfection | Drinking Water Standards, Regulations and Goals | 8 |
GRD | Institute of Environmental Sciences | Environmental Sciences | ESC 530 | Research Methods for Environmental Scientists | An Ethical research in both environmental science and technology fields. | 8 |
GRD | Institute of Environmental Sciences | Environmental Sciences | ESC 541 | Environmental Economics | Introducing the students to the economic analysis of the environment by focusing mainly on concepts, models, and methods used in environmental, ecological and behavioral economics | 8 |
GRD | Institute of Environmental Sciences | Environmental Sciences | ESC 557 | Environmental Microbiology | Introducing relevant topics of microbiology to explore how microor- ganisms utilized in various environmental settings and built environments. | 8 |
GRD | Institute of EnvironmentalSciences | Environmental Sciences | ESC 558 | Concept and Models in Ecology | Biodiversity, Extinctions, And Small Population Paradigm | 8 |
GRD | Institute of Environmental Sciences | Environmental Sciences | ESC 559 | Molecular Ecology and Evolution | Focusing on using genetics methods to understand the ecology and evolution of biological species. | 8 |
GRD | Institute of Environmental Sciences | Environmental Sciences | ESC 572 | Global Environmental Systems | This course covers the basics of various geological, physical, chemical and biological processes on Earth. | 8 |
GRD | Institute of Environmental Sciences | Environmental Sciences | ESC 577 | Dynamic Modeling of Socio-Ecological Systems | This is a course legible for all students with natural sciences, engineering and social sciences backgrounds interested in socio-ecological resilience and sustainability, systems approach, modeling and computer simulation-based problem inquiry. | 8 |
GRD | Institute of EnvironmentalSciences | Environmental Sciences | ESC 58G | Special Topics in Ecosystem Modeling | Ecosystem Modelling is a methodological key skill in modern environmental research | 6 |
GRD | Institute of Environmental Sciences | Environmental Sciences | ESC 59D | Environmental Governance | A critical understanding of the relationship between economic, social and ecological systems; appreciate the interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of environmental problems and be able to apply various methods and models used in social sciences, more specifically in political sciences, economics, political ecology, law, and international relations. | 6 |
GRD | Institute of EnvironmentalSciences | Environmental Technology | ESC 503 | Transport of Pollutants in The Environment | Introduction to fate and transport processes in the environment. | 8 |
GRD | Institute of Environmental Sciences | Environmental Technology | ESC 516 | Water & Wastewater Treat | Providing the students with information on the physicochemical processes used in both water and wastewater treatment. The course is fundamental for the students in the concentration area “Water and Wastewater Treatment Technologies”. It also appeals to others since understanding of treatment requirements and treatment principles is essential for all people dealing with environmental issues. | 8 |
GRD | Institute of Environmental Sciences | Environmental Technology | ESC 531 | Urban Waste Management | Zero Waste & Circular Economy | 8 |
GRD | Institute of Environmental Sciences | Environmental Technology | ESC 536 | Renewable Energy Sources And the Environment | Introducing the basic fundamentals of Renewable Energy Sources with a particular focus on their impacts on the environment and climate change. | 8 |
GRD | Institute of Environmental Sciences | Environmental Technology | ESC 514 | Water Quality Management | Focusing on evaluation, control and modeling of water quality in streams and lakes. Students will be familiar with the basic physical, chemical and biological processes within surface water ecosystems and as well as the processes of transport and assimilation of various types of pollution in surface waters. | 8 |
UGRD | Faculty of Engineering | Chemical Engineering | CHE 443 | Renewable Energy Technologies | Introducing the sustainable and renewable energy concepts | 5 |
UGRD | Faculty of Engineering | Chemical Engineering | CHE 465 | Operational& Environmental Safety of Chemical Plants |
| 5 |
UGRD | Faculty of Engineering | Chemical Engineering | CHE 441 | Hydrogen Technologies | To study the major chemical and physical methods used for clean-up of hydrogen-rich streams, To survey state-of-the-art technologies using hydrogen and/or syngas for clean energy generation | 5 |
GRD | Faculty of Engineering | Chemical Engineering |
CHE 542 | Analysis of Sustainable Technologies | Analysis of natural sustainable energy resources: agricultural, biomass, solar, wind, geothermal and other resources. Existing and near-future sustainable energy technologies. | 8 |
GRD | Faculty of Engineering | Chemical Engineering | CHE 543 | Catalysis for Green Technologies | Environmentally benign catalytic production technologies for energy and materials. Catalysis for mobile and stationary power generation. Adsorbents for hydrogen storage.Catalysts and adsorbents for reduction and prevention of greenhouse gas emissions: methane conversion, carbon dioxide utilization and sequestration. | 8 |
UGRD | Faculty of Engineering | Civil Engineering | CE 422 | Environmental Engineering Design | Water, wastewater quality parameters, water, wastewater treatment, filtration process, oxygen deficiency in water bodies, eutrophication process, nutrient modelling of water bodies, hazardous waste management, smart cities, wetlands. | 5 |
UGRD | Faculty of Engineering | Civil Engineering | CE 49B | Sp. Tp. Green Building | Green buildings and show why and how to develop a sustainable building | 6 |
UGRD | Faculty of Engineering | Civil Engineering | CE 315 | Hydraulic Engineering I | A quantitative introduction to the principles of hydrology, hydraulics and water resources planning for design and analysis of systems concerned with the use and control of water, storage, water transmission; design of open channels and pressure conduits. Ground water engineering, economical analysis of water resources projects. | 6 |
UGRD | Faculty of Engineering | Civil Engineering | CE461 | Transportation Systems Engineering | Sustainability and environmental impacts of transportation systems. | 7 |
UGRD | Faculty of Engineering | Civil Engineering | CE 336 | Foundation Engineering | An ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors, | 6 |
UGRD | Faculty of Engineering | Civil Engineering | CE 322 | Environmental Engineering | Introducing physical, chemical, biological processes we see in environment | 5 |
UGRD | Faculty of Engineering | Civil Engineering | CE 48C | Pecial Topics in Civil Engineering: Planning Aspects of Hydroelectric Power Plants | An ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainabilityEnvironmental, economic and social impacts of hydroelectric power plants. | 5 |
GRD | Faculty of Engineering | Civil Engineering | CE 535 | Environmental Geotechnics | Engineering properties of compacted soils and wastes. Contaminant transport and soil/waste interaction, pore fluid effects. | 8 |
GRD | Faculty of Engineering | Civil Engineering | CE 58B | Sp. Tp. Sustainable Materials | A comprehensive introduction to sustainable materials used for various structures in different engineering disciplines. | 8 |
GRD | Faculty of Engineering | Civil Engineering | CE 638 | Soil Behaviour | The knowledge of fundamentals of atomic structure will enhance the perspective of the student for a safe, economic, sustainable and resilient geotechnical design. Innovative solutions based on the atomic structure will be presented | 10 |
GRD | Faculty of Engineering | Computational Science & Engineering |
CSE 592 | Downscaling Methods & Applications in Climate Science |
| 8 |
GRD | Faculty of Engineering | Computational Science & Engineering | CSE 593 | Impact Modeling Processes for Climate Science |
| 8 |
UGRD | Faculty of Engineering | Industrial Engineering | IE 414 | Smart Manufacturing Systems | An ability to design diverse systems including manufacturing, service, logistics, financial and information, to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability | 6 |
UGRD | Faculty of Economics And AdministrativeSciences | Economics | EC 404 | Environmental & Ecological Economics | An understanding of alternative definitions and measurements of sustainability and the relationship between economic, social, and ecological systems. | 6 |
UGRD | Faculty of Economics And AdministrativeSciences | Economics | EC 471 | Growth and Development | Human Capital, Agricultre, Environment | 6 |
UGRD | Faculty of Economics And AdministrativeSciences | Economics | EC 406 | Agricultural Economics | Agricultural and Environmental Problem -This course will introduce students to topics covered in current discourse of agricultural and environmental economics both globally and in Turkey. | 6 |
UGRD | Faculty of Economics And AdministrativeSciences | Economics | EC 474 | Selected Topics in International Development | Global patterns of ecologically unequal exchange: Implications for sustainability | 6 |
UGRD | Faculty of Economics And AdministrativeSciences | Management | AD 48C | Sustainability Leadership | Gaining a broad perspective on the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability challenges including climate change, water-energy-food nexus, income inequality, diversity, human rights, social unrest, and more. | 6 |
GRD | Faculty of Economics And AdministrativeSciences | Management | AD 510 | Management of Ethical Issues and Sustainability | Exposing the participants to the concepts, theories, methods, diverse perspectives, applications, ‘best and worst practices’ related to business ethics, ethical behavior in organizations, and sustainability. | 6 |
GRD | Faculty of Economics And AdministrativeSciences | Executive MBA | ADEX 571 | Sp. Tp. In Sustainability & Business | Contemporary topics and issues in sustainability and business. | 3 |
UGRD | Faculty of Arts and Sciences | Sociology | SOC 360 | Environment & Society | Analyzing the tension between economic development and the environment in reference to the omnipresent concept of sustainability, and more contemporarily the green economy | 6 |
UGRD | Faculty of Arts and Sciences | Chemistry | CHEM 471 | Environmental Chemistry | An introductory level chemical understanding over a range of chemical compounds and processes that relate to recently popularized major environmental issues. Within each subtitle of the course, the particular type of pollution, and its effects on the deviation from natural balance for various ecosystems will be presented. Body pollution will be discussed. | 6 |
GRD | Faculty of Arts and Sciences | Chemistry | CHEM 596 | Sp. Tp. Alternative Future Energy Sources | Energy Sources and Sustainability, Fundamentals of Energy, Nuclear Energy, Solar Energy, Wind Energy, Biofuels and Biomass, Hydrogen Economy, Fuel Cells | 8 |
UGRD | Faculty of Arts and Sciences | Physics | STS 488 | The Age of Sustainable Development | Why sustainability and why now? Sustainable Development Concepts Planetary Boundaries | 6 |
UGRD | Faculty of Arts and Sciences | Physics | STS 489 | Planetary Boundaries | Sustainable Development Goals, the Anthropocene, Social- Ecological Systems and Resilience thinking, Planetary Boundaries Framework, Planetary Boundaries | 6 |
UGRD | Faculty of Arts and Sciences | Philosophy | PHIL 497 | Sel. Tp. The Ethics of Climate Change | Looking at climate change from the perspective of environmental ethics. We will examine universal ethical theories and the political principles of cosmopolitanism and ask how well these theories address the problem of global climate change | 6 |
GRD | Faculty of Managerial Sciences | Sustainable Tourism Management | TRM 521 | Destination Development for Sustainable Tourism | The sustainable destination; tourism impacts; sustainability indicators | 7 |
GRD | Faculty of Managerial Sciences | Sustainable Tourism Management | TRM 525 | Sustainable Business Development | Establishing sustainable business strategies, balancing economic profit targets and broader economic, social and environmental values. | 7 |
GRD | Faculty of Managerial Sciences | Sustainable Tourism Management | TRM 581 | Sp.Tp. Current Sustainability Issues in the World Economy | Providing the student with an understanding of the key sustainability issues of the world with respect to economic/financial, social and environmental/ecological problems | 7 |
GRD | Faculty of Managerial Sciences | Sustainable Tourism Management | TRM 511 | Tourism, Society and Culture | Sustainable development strategies that involve and gain the participation and support of the community members of a region will also be covered. Features of the bottom-up, community-based tourism, pro-poor, protective/good tourism and creative tourism will be discussed. | 9 |
GRD | Faculty of Managerial Sciences | Sustainable Tourism Management | TRM 522 | Environment, Sustainability and Tourism | Providing the student with a framework for understanding the key issues of environment and sustainability. | 7 |
GRD | Faculty of Managerial Sciences | Sustainable Tourism Management | TRM 580 | Managing Sustainability in Hospitality and Tourism | Providing an opportunity to develop the academic perspective further on the current state of management and governance of sustainability in the industry | 7 |
UGRD | Faculty of Managerial Sciences | Tourism Administration | TRM 104 | Environment & Tourism | Providing students with the fundamental concepts of environment; the knowledge of key global environmental problems; their impacts on tourism and vice versa; and what kind of responses has tourism created to deal with these problems | 5 |
UGRD | Faculty of Managerial Sciences | Tourism Administration | TRM 413 | Tourism Destination Development | Exploring the sustainable development of destinations and the interplay of various stakeholders. | 6 |
UGRD | Faculty of Managerial Sciences | Tourism Administration | TRM 48R | Sustainability from Environmental and Social Perspectives | This course not only provides students with the main concepts of sustainability in both environmental and social perspectives but also opens a critical debate on what should be considered as “sustainable and unsustainable. | 5 |
GRD | Faculty of Managerial Sciences | International Competition & Trade | INCT 583 | Strategic Sourcing Management | Understanding impact of sourcing decisions on sustainability. | 7 |
UGRD | Faculty of Education | Mathematics and Science Education | SCED 48H | Sp. Tp. Climate Change Education |
| 6 |
UGRD | Faculty of Education | Mathematics and Science Education | SCED 240 | Science, Technology and Society | Explaining the interdisciplinary nature of science and technology.-Sustainability | 5 |
GRD | Faculty of Education | Mathematics and Science Education | SCED 692 | Science Learning Environments |
| 10 |
