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class=\"course-name\">Academic Writing<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">6 ECTS \/ MQF 5<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Applied Ethics<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS \/ MQF 5<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Global Humanities<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">6 ECTS \/ MQF 5<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Reading for Knowledge<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS \/ MQF 5<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Introductory Philosophy<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">6 ECTS \/ MQF 5<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Digital Research Methods<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS \/ MQF 5<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Comprehensive Exams*<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">6 ECTS \/ MQF 6<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Practicum*<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">12 ECTS \/ MQF 6<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n   <\/div>\n\n   <!-- Tier 2 -->\n   <div class=\"tier-card\">\n    <div class=\"tier-header tier-2\">TIER 2<\/div>\n    <div class=\"tier-content\">\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Ideas &#038; Figures in Western Intellectual History<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">6 ECTS \/ MQF 6<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Social Collaboration<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">6 ECTS \/ MQF 6<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Religion &#038; Power<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS \/ MQF 6<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Art in Society<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">6 ECTS \/ MQF 6<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Innovations &#038; Paradigms<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS \/ MQF 6<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">BA Thesis Proposal<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS \/ MQF 6<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Comprehensive Exams*<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">6 ECTS \/ MQF 6<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Practicum*<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">12 ECTS \/ MQF 6<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n   <\/div>\n\n   <!-- Tier 3 -->\n   <div class=\"tier-card\">\n    <div class=\"tier-header tier-3\">TIER 3<\/div>\n    <div class=\"tier-content\">\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Social &#038; Environmental Justice<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS \/ MQF 6<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Creating History<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">6 ECTS \/ MQF 6<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Research Methods<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS \/ MQF 6<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">BA Research<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">6 ECTS \/ MQF 6<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">BA Thesis Writing &#038; Defence Prep<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS \/ MQF 6<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Comprehensive Exams*<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">6 ECTS \/ MQF 6<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">BA Thesis Defence<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">6 ECTS \/ MQF 6<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Practicum*<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">12 ECTS \/ MQF 6<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n   <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"note-box\">\n   <strong>Note:<\/strong> Modules marked with * may be repeated for credit.\n  <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <!-- Specializations -->\n <div class=\"ba-section\">\n  <h2 class=\"ba-section-title\">Specializations<\/h2>\n  <p class=\"ba-section-subtitle\">Choose one specialization track (24 ECTS required from your chosen specialization, plus 21 ECTS from other modules).<\/p>\n  \n  <div class=\"specialization-container\">\n   <!-- Philosophy -->\n   <div class=\"spec-card\">\n    <div class=\"spec-header\">\n     <h3>Philosophy<\/h3>\n     <p>8 courses \u00b7 3 ECTS each<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"spec-content\">\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Medieval Philosophy &#038; the Birth of Institutions<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Early Modern Philosophy &#038; the Search for Subject<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Contemporary Continental Philosophy<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Post-Kantian Philosophy &#038; the Problems of Autonomy<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Philosophy as a Way of Life: What Is Doable?<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Epistemology &#038; Ontology: What Is Thinkable?<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">The Future of Philosophy: New Problems of Autonomy<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Twenty-First Century Structures &#038; Institutions<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n   <\/div>\n\n   <!-- Literature -->\n   <div class=\"spec-card\">\n    <div class=\"spec-header\">\n     <h3>Literature<\/h3>\n     <p>8 courses \u00b7 3 ECTS each<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"spec-content\">\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">World Literature<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Literature &#038; the Political<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Gender &#038; Literature<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">English Literary Classics<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Fiction &#038; Creative Nonfiction<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Poetry of Place<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Travel Narratives and Frontier Literature<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Modern Storytelling &#038; the Oral Tradition<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n   <\/div>\n\n   <!-- Social-Environmental Studies -->\n   <div class=\"spec-card\">\n    <div class=\"spec-header\">\n     <h3>Social-Environmental Studies<\/h3>\n     <p>11 courses \u00b7 3 ECTS each<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"spec-content\">\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Communicating Science<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Energy, Society, &#038; Sustainability<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Natural Resources Economics<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Sustainable Supply Chain Management<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Agriculture &#038; Society<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Overview of Biosystems Engineering<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Forest Ecology &#038; Management<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Management Paradigms<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Wildlife &#038; Habitat Management<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Wetland Identification &#038; Management<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n     <div class=\"course-item\">\n      <span class=\"course-name\">Geology &#038; Site Interpretation<\/span>\n      <span class=\"course-credits\">3 ECTS<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n   <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n <!-- Summary -->\n <div class=\"summary-box\">\n  <h3>Program Requirements Summary<\/h3>\n  <p>Compulsory Modules (Tiers 1-3): <strong>135 ECTS<\/strong> \u00b7 Specialization: <strong>24 ECTS<\/strong> \u00b7 Additional Electives: <strong>21 ECTS<\/strong> \u00b7 Total: <strong>180 ECTS<\/strong><\/p>\n 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