IIT Guwahati introduces first-of-its-kind course on UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030 – education

Indian Institute of Know-how, Guwahati (IITG) has turn out to be the primary IIT to introduce a course on UN-Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 within the B.Tech curriculum from this tutorial yr (2021-2021).

Guided by the ideas of sustainable growth targets, this course gives a novel alternative for B.Tech college students to grasp the ideas of sustainability and work in direction of constructing a greater society for everybody.

The course will probably be supplied to the second yr B.Tech college students as a obligatory course, to reorient the considering of younger and dynamic people in direction of the trail of sustainable growth.

Because of the interdisciplinary nature of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, the nodal division for this course, has collaborated and pooled assets from eight different departments of the Institute to design and implement the course.

College members from every of those departments will collectively conduct the course and can present publicity to B.Tech college students on the technological, economical, ecological, and societal elements of those 17 SDGs.

Prof. T. G. Sitharam, Director, IIT Guwahati, emphasised the pressing have to undertake these 17 targets as a part of the curriculum in order that the scholars are conscious of the challenges for sustainable growth and the way their roles can result in holistic growth.

Talking concerning the introduction of this course, he stated, “With solely 10 extra years remaining to satisfy these targets, it turns into very important that the scholars are taught concerning the targets of inclusive and sustainable progress and thru this course, supplied by college members from throughout engineering, science and humanities departments, IIT Guwahati needs to arrange the scholars to play main roles in ‘Remodeling the World’”.

Prof. Anamika Barua, a Course coordinator from the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati, stated, “This might be the primary time the 9 departments of IIT Guwahati have joined collectively to supply a course on the undergraduate stage, realizing that sustainability challenges and inclusive progress go hand-in-hand and should be understood on the crossroads of science and society by means of an interdisciplinary lens”.

She additional added, “The scholars, by means of this course, can be educated to critically consider the concept of Sustainability as an rising self-discipline and have an opinion on the position for India, as a nation, within the profitable implementation of the brand new SDGs”.

The course on SDGs will allow college students to appreciate the significance of a secure relationship between human actions and the pure world for a wholesome, clear and secure surroundings, and, thus, make them accountable people and the world a greater place for inclusive progress and general prosperity.