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Social Ecology in Academic Teaching
In order to establish Social Ecology in the scientific system appropriate capacity building is required, particularly in academic teaching. In recent years, ISOE has strengthened the expertise in teaching Social Ecology at universities as well as polytechnics.
Current structural changes in the academic system (e.g., master programs, foundation of research centers, setting up of endowed professorships etc.) facilitate a continuous offer of seminars and lectures on social-ecological issues, and students from different natural-scientific and social-scientific disciplines can be trained in accordance with the perspectives and basic concepts of social-ecological research.
At Goethe-University Frankfurt, ISOE is involved in the new interdisciplinary master programme “Environmental Sciences”. This master programme is a joint project of four different university departments (biochemistry, chemistry and pharmaceutics; biology; geography and social sciences) together with the ISOE. In addition to a fundamental understanding of the processes in the biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere, the interactions among natural and anthropogenic environmental changes are explicitly subject of study. Therefore, not only natural scientific, but also social-scientific aspects such as sustainable development or consumption patterns are included. Together with the faculty of social sciences, ISOE is responsible for the module “Social Ecology” which includes a social-scientific as well as a transdiscipinary approach.