Climate Change 101. Interdisciplinary introduction to climate change and current environmental crisis. 1100-KLI-OG
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Learning outcomes
Knowledge:
Students have basic knowledge about anthropogenic global warming, mechanisms governing climate system and its change, feedback loops in the climate system, and the human role in these processes.
Students have also basic knowledge about the mechanisms and connections between climate change and natural environment, as well as the environmental dimension of the contemporary crisis.
Students have basic knowledge about the role of social and economic process in climate change.
They also have basic knowledge about psychological, cognitive and emotional processes explaining attitudes and actions towards climate change.
Skills:
Students can distinguish at the basic level between scientific knowledge and misinformation. They can critically evaluate the sources of knowledge and actively search for information. They inference on the basis of data and facts analysis.
Social competences (student can do it):
Students can understand emotions, attitudes and actions connected with climate change, both on a micro and macro scale, and to understand social dimension of climate and ecological crisis. They actively search for individual and social actions in the dace of the climate crisis.
Assessment criteria
Final grade on the basis of tasks and quizzess solved during the term and the final multiple choice test (all online)