17.4.2)Education for SDGs specific courses on sustainability.

The courses offered by Tamkang University with a focus on SDGs include:

◆The Department of Civil Engineering offers a course on “Low Carbon Green Building” which starts with the concept of low carbon and explores the content and certification evaluation systems of green buildings and future development pathways. This course aims to equip students with the fundamental knowledge needed to create “comfortable, energy efficient, and well-designed” buildings and to realize an urban development charter centered on energy conservation and carbon reduction.
◆The Department of Architecture offers a course on “Sustainable Architecture” which teaches architecture students about the meaning, operational goals, and design methods of sustainable buildings. Through design, students learn how to integrate with natural systems of sound, light, heat, air, water, resources, energy, and nutrients in a way that not only meets various human needs but also achieves the development goals of low carbon emissions, energy efficiency, health, safety, and harmonious coexistence with nature.
◆The Department of Architecture offers a course titled “Exploring Sustainability” which explores sustainability issues from a departmental perspective. The course uses the topic of pedestrian and vehicle needs within sustainable campus planning to discuss and explore environmental values through role-playing activities.
◆The Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering offers a course titled “Exploring Sustainability,” aimed at enhancing students’ awareness of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and how to combine their departmental expertise to take action and advance these goals.
◆The Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering offers a course titled “Corporate Environment Management,” exploring environmental issues commonly required in trade markets under international trade competition. Topics include recent ISO international environmental standards, green design, RoHS, greenhouse gas reduction, carbon footprint assessments, eco-labeling, carbon labeling, and corporate social responsibility.
◆The Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering offers a course titled “Sustainable Engineering Design: Waste to Resource” which explores and reviews developments in energy efficiency, water resource management policies, and resource recycling across all economic sectors, including industry, production and consumption, major infrastructure, transportation, food and agriculture, and waste management.
◆Other related courses include:
a.The Department of Banking and Finance offers a course titled “Market Trend and Green Economy” as a common course in the College of Business and Management.
b.The Department of Industrial Economics offers a course on “Environmental Change and Sustainable Development.”
c.The Department of Economics offers courses such as “Climate Economics,” “Labor Economics,” “Energy Policy and Management,” “Energy Economics,” and “Environmental Economics.”
d.The Department of Transportation Management offers courses like “Sustainable Transportation,” “Sustainable Transportation and Tourism,” and “Urban Issues Exploration and Sustainable Innovation.”
e.The Department of Diplomacy and International Relations offers courses on “Greening Cities and Sustainable Development” and “Studies of EU Cultural Tourisms Management and EU Environmental Protection Policy” at the Doctoral Program in European Studies.
f.The Department of Chemistry offers courses such as “Chemistry in Life,” “Life Sciences: Gene Technology and Health,” “Futures Studies in Technology,” and “Exploring Sustainability.”