INTRODUCTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUSTAINABILITY GEOG1015
From 11 January- 15 March 2021, two students from the University's Green New Deal movement, Vidya Nanthakumar and Samuel Marot, presented a new evening course for UofG students: Introduction to Climate Change and Sustainability GEOG1015. Vidya is a 3rd year medical student, and Sam is a 3rd year mechanical engineering student; both are part of the Academic and Educational Change group. Course Convener was the Centre's own Director, Prof Jaime Toney.
While delivered from the home base of the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, this 10-week accredited course provided an interdisciplinary introduction to climate change, using approaches from the social sciences (history, sociology, geography, politics, economics), and the natural sciences (engineering, physics, biology). It included a strong focus on potential solutions, leaving students with a positive knowledge base on the context of the climate crisis, and current theories on how to act.
This course was a huge success and is now being run in the 1st and 2nd semesters of 2021-2022.
Understanding Your Carbon Impact and Why it Matters - Upskilling Microcredential
Teaching start: September 2021
Microcredential: 10 weeks
Time commitment: 8-10 hours per week
Course cost: £799
Entry requirements: Participants should have a first degree or equivalent and an IELTS score of at least 6.5. No previous experience in climate change or sustainability is required. This course is specially designed for those new to the discipline.
Deadline for enrolment: 5th September 2021.
Course description: Creating a low carbon, sustainable future is one of the key challenges facing organisations and individuals worldwide. Sustainability skills and understanding are increasingly needed at all levels within the workplace. Whether you've been asked to take on a sustainability role in your organisation, or you are just curious about how to be part of the solution, this microcredential course will provide you with key skills to implement sustainability practices within your organisation, community or household. Using real-world cases, you’ll see how various forms of action lead to sustainable practice. The course offers an active approach to learning allowing you to practice and reflect on opportunities to be an agent for change in your life and/or your workplace.
SYSTEMS THINKING: CLIMATE CHANGE & SUSTAINABLE DECISION MAKING - Upskilling Microcredential
Teaching start: September 2021
Microcredential: 10 weeks
Time commitment: 8-10 hours per week
Course cost: £799
Entry requirements: Participants should have a first degree or equivalent and an IELTS score of at least 6.5. No previous experience in climate change or sustainability is required. This course is specially designed for those new to the discipline.
Deadline for enrolment: 5th September 2021.
Course description: Climate change is the biggest global challenge to the foundations of our society and the health of our planet since humans have inhabited the Earth. There is no part of the planet that is not touched in some way by climate change and there is no part of society that has not been touched by the global Covid pandemic. These global challenges have highlighted the way society, economy, and environment are interconnected. This course will explore tools and theories that help you create solutions for a sustainable future by shifting your mindset away from looking at individual, siloed, components of a system in isolation and shifting toward understanding how these components interrelate and interconnect.
LEARN HOW TO REDUCE YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT AT WORK AND HOME
Teaching dates: 25/04/2022 - 08/06/2022
Microcredential: 10 weeks
Time commitment: 8-10 hours per week
Course cost: £799; SFC funding available
Entry requirements: Participants should have a first degree or equivalent and an IELTS score of at least 6.5. No previous experience in climate change or sustainability is required. This course is specially designed for those new to the discipline.
Deadline for enrolment: 8th April 2022
Course description: Creating a low carbon, sustainable future is one of the key challenges facing organisations and individuals worldwide. Sustainability skills and understanding are increasingly needed at all levels within the workplace. Whether you've been asked to take on a sustainability role in your organisation, or you are just curious about how to be part of the solution, this microcredential course will provide you with key skills to implement sustainability practices within your organisation, community or household. Using real-world cases, you’ll see how various forms of action lead to sustainable practice. The course offers an active approach to learning allowing you to practice and reflect on opportunities to be an agent for change in your life and/or your workplace.
SYSTEMS THINKING: CLIMATE CHANGE & SUSTAINABLE DECISION MAKING
Teaching dates: 25/04/2022 - 08/06/2022
Microcredential: 10 weeks
Time commitment: 8-10 hours per week
Course cost: £799; SFC funding available
Entry requirements: Participants should have a first degree or equivalent and an IELTS score of at least 6.5. No previous experience in climate change or sustainability is required. This course is specially designed for those new to the discipline.
Deadline for enrolment: 8th April 2022
Course description: Climate change is the biggest global challenge to the foundations of our society and the health of our planet since humans have inhabited the Earth. There is no part of the planet that is not touched in some way by climate change and there is no part of society that has not been touched by the global Covid pandemic. These global challenges have highlighted the way society, economy, and environment are interconnected. This course will explore tools and theories that help you create solutions for a sustainable future by shifting your mindset away from looking at individual, siloed, components of a system in isolation and shifting toward understanding how these components interrelate and interconnect.