PSL is introducing an innovative new interdisciplinary program for future high school graduates: a three-year undergraduate curriculum based on the challenges of sustainability.
PSL’s new undergraduate degree in sustainability sciences is designed to produce students who can examine the challenges posed by sustainable development in all their complexity, from the various scientific problems they raise to their political, social and cultural implications and potential technological solutions. The aim is not to produce experts in sustainable development at the undergraduate level, but rather students who have acquired the necessary mindset to tackle those challenges and who will pursue graduate-level studies at top universities in France or abroad, while maintaining the intellectual habits they acquired as undergraduates.
Learning outcome
Designed in close connection with research under way at PSL laboratories, this unique undergraduate program is based on a comprehensive approach that necessarily encompasses a wide range of disciplines, with the aim of training future generations in the sustainability challenges. It is modeled on the PSL undergraduate curriculum: educational excellence and gradual specialization over three years, with a solid multidisciplinary foundation.
Offering veritable training for the mind, the program is structured around six principal areas:
Scientific teaching based on current PSL research and organized around a multidisciplinary core curriculum and two majors: Environmental Sciences and Economics and Social Sciences.
Project-mode teaching that is interdisciplinary and team-based, along with internships and practical case studies presented in part by public and private organizations, to give students an interdisciplinary perspective on the broad issues related to sustainability.
Development of behavioral skills (creativity, adaptability, community-mindedness, motivation, communication, reasoning, etc.).
Development of professional know-how (project management, impact analysis, digital skills, linguistic and intercultural skills, etc.).
An annual series of lectures presented by researchers and others who are actively involved in sustainable development issues and open to a broader student body.
Student participation in projects connected with sustainability challenges in the form of mandatory projects or internships.
Requirements
To apply, you must be preparing or hold a general baccalaureate from French secondary education (obtained in France or abroad) or a secondary school diploma abroad with recognized equivalence. Required language levels: English (B2) and French (C1).
Required baccalaureate specialties : Mathematics* (mandatory) + any other specialty.
*The “Additional Mathematics” option in Terminale is not sufficient.
No prerequisites in computer science or programming are necessary to apply. A strong curiosity to learn these disciplines is however desired.
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