ENG-410: Energy supply, economics and transitionThis course examines energy systems from various angles: available resources, how they can be combined or substituted, their private and social costs, whether they can meet the energy demand, and how the transition to a renewable energy system can be foste ...
AR-489: Urban sociologyCe cours a pour objectif de familiariser les étudiants à la sociologie urbaine à partir du prisme du logement. Il permet de naviguer entre les concepts, outils et méthodes qu'elle propose pour penser l'évolution concomitante des modes de vie et de l'organi ...
MGT-203: Sustainable entrepreneurshipThis class is designed for Bachelor students who want to understand the interrelated economic, social and ecological challenges society is facing, and who want to acquire the knowledge and skills to re-frame problems into opportunities and establish entrep ...
FIN-429: Sustainable & entrepreneurial financeThis course deals with the role of finance in the transition to a sustainable, low-carbon economy. Students learn how to apply asset allocation techniques to build sustainable portfolios, understand the entrepreneurial ecosystem, and discover the emerging ...
HUM-416: Humans/machinesCet enseignement croise des approches culturelles (notamment dans les domaines littéraires ou artistiques), sociales et scientifiques pour penser les enjeux, les perspectives et les problèmes que soulève l'hybridation de l'humain et de la machine. ...
HUM-207: Ethique sociale et politiqueCe cours vise à permettre aux étudiant-e-s d'identifier et d'utiliser les outils de l'éthique dans le contexte de questions sociales et politiques relatives au développement et la mise en œuvre technologique, avec une attention particulière portée à l'inte ...
HUM-471: Economic growth and sustainability IThis course examines growth from various angles: economic growth, growth in the use of resources, need for growth, limits to growth, sustainable growth, population growth. Although grounded in economics, it takes up elements from many other disciplines. ...
HUM-249: Competing with ChinaLe cours sensibilise les étudiant·e·s aux implications de l'émergence de la Chine comme puissance économique et technologique en portant une réflexion critique sur les défis posés par cette transition. ...
ENV-471: Environmental economicsIntroduction to economic analysis applied to environmental issues: all the necessary basic concepts, including cost-benefit analysis, for environmental policy making and its instruments (examples: climate, waste, mobility). Introduction to financial calcul ...
AR-597(a): Superstudio AThis Superstudio will study the history of the villa by focusing on 30 case studies, from antiquity to the last century. The aim of this study is to understand through the architecture of the villa the most quintessential tropes of architecture: form, poli ...
HUM-397: Design for sustainability IThis course explores and practices some of the fundamental tools of designing for sustainability with a focus on the sustainability, desirability, and economic viability of solutions. ...
AR-465: Urban habitat and developementCentré sur les formes d'habitat des plus pauvres dans les pays du Sud et du Nord et les contextes de crises, en particulier les architectures d'urgence, le cours propose une analyse critique de l'urbanisation du monde au 21ème siècle. ...
PENS-322: Urban voids: mind the gap!This course focuses on transforming urban voids, like vacant lots or abandoned buildings, into valuable spaces addressing challenges such as climate change and social cohesion. It equips engineers and architects with interdisciplinary skills to creatively ...
HUM-427: History of globalization IGlobalization is the linguistic omnivore of our times. This course addresses the long history of worldwide encounters and goes behind the rosy vision of a global village. It gives particular attention to inequalities and to the men and women who fought for ...
HUM-330: Transport and energy: historical approachesCe cours-atelier traite de l'évolution des technologies du transport en Suisse aux 19e et 20e siècles. Grâce à l'analyse interactive de documents d'époque (sources), l'étudiant-e prend conscience des relations entre le technique et le social et analyse les ...
ENV-501: Material flow analysis and resource managementThis course provides the basis to understand material and energy production and consumption processes. Students learn how to develop a material flow analysis and apply it to resource management cases. They analyze the implications of their models on resour ...
HUM-462: History of globalization IIGlobalization is the linguistic omnivore of our times. This course addresses the long history of worldwide encounters and goes behind the rosy vision of a global village. It gives particular attention to inequalities and to the men and women who fought for ...
HUM-275: Evolutionary psychologyLa psychologie évolutionniste est une discipline située au carrefour de la biologie, de la psychologie, de l'anthropologie, des sciences sociales et naturelles qui examine les traits psychologiques et les comportements humains dans une perspective évolutio ...
AR-154: Environmental history and theories ILe cours vise a familiariser les etudiants avec l'histoire de l'environnement et des paysages, et avec la maniere dont les preoccupations environnementales amenent a repenser aujourd'hui le sens et les principes de l'architecture et des disciplines de pr ...
AR-301(aq): Studio BA5 (Bedir)This studio aims for designing interventions, programs, spaces; and proposing modes of collectivity and instituting for the inhabitation of human and more than human agencies in sites across Switzerland, where water cycles entangle with post Anthropocene l ...
