Climate & Environment
What is Climate & Environment?
Explore how we can shape a fairer, greener future through a dynamic blend of creativity, critical thinking and real‑world action. The Climate and Environment theme offers innovative courses where students rethink the purpose of education in a time of crisis, step into the city to explore sustainability in practice, and challenge the forces driving the Anthropocene. Designed to be inspiring, hands‑on and hopeful, the Climate and Environment theme empowers learners to understand global challenges, imagine new possibilities, and take meaningful steps toward a more sustainable world.
Below, you can find a sample list of C4L courses within the Climate & Envrionement theme. Please note that they are subject to change. The finalised list of courses and details (including course descriptions, assessment and timetabling information) will be available ahead of enrolment opening in August 2026. Keep an eye on this page for more information!
See, share and shape your city: SDG11 in practice
This course uses action-oriented pedagogy; students will “see” an urban environment, carry out research to investigate different ways to “shape” a specific local area and then co-produce and “share” a visual or written output which addresses SDG11. Specifically, students interact with new peers across disciplines, questioning what works and doesn’t work in their home cities to disrupt traditional silos of thinking and learning and class-based ways of teaching; our site visits and reflective outdoor learning promote team working. This enhances awareness of the community and their own perspective and challenges them to engage with their lived experiences and positionality to apply inclusive solutions to urban challenges, building empathy and imagination as a globally engaged citizen.
Smash the Anthropocene!
This course focuses on climate literacy and communication. It provides students with a framework for critically analysing different narratives about climate action and supports students in developing collaborative and creative skills necessary for effective climate action.