Ashesi University takes climate change and sustainable development education (CCSE) seriously and has established knowledge and support structures that effectively align its programs with CCSE. The university offers about one hundred and forty courses collectively in Business Administration, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Engineering. Ashesi has integrated climate change and sustainability education in all its core courses and some of its elective courses into individual sessions of courses or modules. Ashesi believes that such a curriculum at the end of four years will cultivate a healthy climate literacy habit of mind in its students. Ashesi University has also created specific climate change modules as elective courses. See Table 1 for an example of such a course

Table 1

Ashesi Climate Change Related Elective Course Modules

Ashesi also models living a sustainable life as part of its indirect or invisible curriculum in using solar panels (SDG 7), harvesting rainwater (SDG 15), reusing wastewater, and creating boreholes for water (SDG 6), to name a few.

At Ashesi, we teach courses that reflect the SDGs, e.g., SDG 11 – Introduction to AI, which falls under SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities – AI supports intelligent city initiatives, resource management, and urban planning, making cities more sustainable and liveable. Other courses include the Leadership Seminars SDG 16, Women Writing Africa: Gender in African Literature and Films SDG 5, and Introduction to Micro and Macro Economics SDG 1, 2 & 3.