World Class: Sustainability Ethics

The Unique Value Proposition of Globethics World Classes

A World Class allows executive participants to acquire a professionally relevant qualification in a leading and future-oriented area within a short time span. A World Class is delivered as a three-day intensive live programme with nine content units and four corresponding application units (clinics), which will allow the participants to elaborate a self-guided study on a topic of their choice, based on the methods and case studies analysed during the live sessions. The course is supported by a fully-fledged online course pathway, designed to facilitate engagement with quality resources and up-to-date study material.

Schedule

The World Class on Economic, Social and Ecological Ethics will take place from 15-17 November 2023.

Course participants are encouraged to request professional development leave for the duration of the World Class from their employers.

All live sessions will be recorded and made available to registered participants on the course platform. To obtain the course certificate, participants must attend a minimum of 3 live sessions distributed over the three days. Course work related to the clinics can also be accomplished outside of the proposed schedule, provided that all work is completed submitted on the third day.

World Class participants will be offered time to elaborate a self-guided study on a topic of their choice in relation to themes studied in the 9 live programme units, similar to a short Capstone Project. The course instructor will provide appropriate guidance and supervision. The objective is to conduct the self-guided project throughout the three course days with a completion on the third day.

Workload

The World Classes have an estimated total workload of 12 hours (online contact hours and self-guided study work, excluding additional time for facultative networking):

• 7 hours and 15 minutes for the live sessions (45 minutes per live session; 9 live sessions in total);
• 4 hours for the clinics (1 hour per clinic; 4 clinics in total);
• 45 minutes in total for preparatory work, course platform introduction and evaluation survey;
• 45 minutes for networking (facultative).

The World Classes are designed for executives with a prior learning experience at least at the level of a Bachelor degree.

Classes conducted in English require upper intermediate proficiency in English to follow the live sessions and to read the course material. Future World Classes are planned to be offered in additional languages.

The courses are particularly targeted at exectuives working for international organisations with a focus on economics, societal participation, and/or ecological transition.

Participation in the World Classes requires prior registration and payment of the tuition fees.

The fee includes the full live programme, quality study material, free access to the Globethics specialised online library, expert accompaniment, free access to the World Class course material on the Globethics Academy online platform (Moodle) and the Executive World Class Certificate.

From 1 October 2023, the World Class will be aligned with the pricing structure of other Globethics Academy courses, based on the World Bank Development Indicators.

The course will be priced as follows:

To pay the correct price for your country, on the World Class registration page, you’ll have to select your course and your country income classification according to the World Bank Map, before following the instructions to complete your registration and payment, either via PayPal or bank transfer.

Participants are encouraged to do their own research on scholarships and grants to help with course fees.

What's included

Course materials will be provided on the course online platform and additional resources are accessible in dedicated collections of the Globethics Library.

All the interactive materials from our courses are available as downloadable PDF versions for low bandwidth connections.

Globethics Specialised Open Access Ethics Library

Registered World Class course participants benefit of a full and lifelong access to the Globethics Specialised Open Access Ethics Library, upon free registration, with more than 75 special collections, inter alia collections on sustainable development and environmental ethics, more than 150 journals , and more than 3.6 million books, articles, research papers, conference reports and other documents.

Computing requirements

You’ll need broadband internet access and a desktop or laptop computer with an up-to-date version of Windows (10 or 11), or macOS (10.15 or higher).

It’s also possible to access our learning management system on a mobile phone, tablet device, however, as you will have to download the moodle application for Android or MacOs.

For the assignments and final assignment, you will be required to use any word processor, such as Microsoft Word, Google Sheets, Pages, and convert it to a PDF, you can download it here.

Globethics is a quality provider for online and blended learning course programmes with a dual accreditation by the British Accreditation Council (BAC) and the European Agency for Higher Education and Accreditation (EAHEA). Upon full attendance of the World Class live programme and the fulfillment of the requirements related to the clinics, participants will be able to obtain a Globethics Executive Programme Certificate – Special Mention World Class Economic, Social and Ecological Ethics.

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