Agricola Minors

Are you looking to dive deeper into the interdisciplinary world of sustainable development? Our diverse minors are designed to provide you with the knowledge and skills needed to tackle global challenges from multiple perspectives. You'll have the opportunity to engage with a rich blend of disciplines, collaborate with experts, and immerse yourself in real-world scenarios. Whether it’s exploring innovation for a sustainable future, analyzing development from a global viewpoint, investigating the challenges of polar regions, or critically examining colonial legacies, our interdisciplinary approach will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of global sustainability issues. Join us for this transformative learning experience!

Check out our Minors

Minor Arctic and Antarctic Studies

Embark on a captivating journey into Arctic and Antarctic Studies! This minor program is designed to provide a broad social and ecological overview in Arctic human- environment relations, and is suitable for students from a variety of research backgrounds. Instructors in the programme are all carrying out original research in this dynamic part of the world and have experience with policy-related issues. This programme can provide excellent preparation for a career in research (natural or social) or policy/ governance. Working independently and in groups, students will learn to think critically, develop original research topics, and write well-formulated analyses.

Minor Development Studies

In today’s world, richer and poorer countries share many challenges, such as inequality and poverty, marginalisation of minorities, limited access to health services and education, ecological degradation, climate change and failing democratic and political institutions. In some countries and regions these issues develop into outright political and humanitarian crises.  The Minor Development Studies is a multidisciplinary and interfaculty minor, providing students with tools to understand challenges the world faces from the points of view of people living in it and to provide a conceptual framework to understand and reflect on global development issues.

Minor Future Planet Innovation

Would you like to contribute to a sustainable society? Learn how to evoke change? Are you interested in both the scientific and social aspects of sustainability? With this minor, the future is in your hands. The minor Future Planet Innovation aims to contribute to a sustainable society. By attending this minor, you will learn how to make choices in a rapidly changing world and how to design feasible solutions. The minor is a complete program that perfectly fits in each curriculum. This means that the education is tailor-made for a broad audience. 

Minor Global Studies and Decolonial Critiques

This minor aims to shed light on understanding how global challenges affect countries of the global south disproportionately and how and, more importantly, why, the gap between the High and Low-Income countries continues to widen. During this Minor, you will be introduced to academic decolonization beyond mere assimilation. We will focus on approaching decolonization via conscious and proactive teaching of a diversified and transformed decolonized curriculum and by applying engaging pedagogies such as critical arts-based methods.