Climate.now basics (5 cr)
Code: TE00BT85-3005
General information
- Enrollment
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01.12.2023 - 07.01.2024
Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
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08.01.2024 - 04.03.2024
Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Local portion
- 1 cr
- Virtual portion
- 4 cr
- RDI portion
- 1 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Blended learning
- Unit
- Chemical Industry
- Campus
- Kupittaa Campus
- Teaching languages
- English
- Seats
- 20 - 70
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Energy and Environmental Technology
- Teachers
- Marketta Virta
- Piia Nurmi
- Scheduling groups
- Avoimen AMK:n kiintiöpaikat. Ilmoittaudu ilman tätä pienryhmää. (Size: 10 . Open UAS : 10.)
- Small groups
- Open UAS quota. Please enroll without selecting this group.
- Course
- TE00BT85
Evaluation scale
H-5
Content scheduling
Climate.now is done online. Most of the work is such that you can do it independently, but we also have online lectures and one game session (pelipäivä)
The course starts 8.1.2023 and ends 4.3.2023. You are supposed to dedicate all Mondays to this course. There are tasks to do online for each Monday.
Online lectures in zoom: (You find the link in ITS and also in your outlook calendar)
8.1.2024 at 9-10.30
12.2.2024 at 9-10.30
26.2.2024 at 9-10.30
Game session on Turku AMK campus 22.1.2024 (4 hours)
The online materials can be studied in Finnish or English.
Objective
On the course, in addition to understanding climate change and the related interactions, learning also focuses on becoming aware of different attitudes and ways of thinking.
The course is part of the CDIO-framework that is guiding the studies at Turku University of Applied Sciences as on the course the students learn more about how climate change is linked to the students’ own fields of study. Additionally, on the course the students will learn more about sustainable development.
After the course, the student will:
- understand climate change as a scientific phenomenon
- learn how climate change can be prevented
- learn how adaptation to it is possible
- understand that climate chance is a global challenge
- understand that climate change is also an ethical challenge to our understanding of human life
- understand how climate change is linked to the students’ own fields of study
- learn about the students’ personal roles as influencers
Content
Climate.now is a multidisciplinary study and teaching module on the basics of climate change. It consists of written material, video lectures and assignments that will help anyone familiarize themselves with the basics of the climate change.
Materials
On ITSlearning platform. Materials based on http://www.climatenow.fi/climatenow.html
Teaching methods
Activating tasks on online platform, studies on climate change.
The activating tasks are:
The learning diary
Assignment 1: Teach climate change
Assignment 2: My role as a climate change influencer
Assignment 3: Game evening: playing a climate change game on campus on 22.1.
Exam schedules
No exam.
As this is an online course based on tasks:
- You don't have the possibility to raise your final grade or a grade for an individual task.
You need to do the tasks by deadline.
International connections
Tasks and materials on ITSlearning platform https://turkuamk.itslearning.com/
Four meetings on campus so that students can ask and interact:
3 lectures and 1 game session.
Completion alternatives
The only way to do the course is to do the tasks, no alternative ways to complete the course.
Student workload
Tasks on ITSlearning platform https://turkuamk.itslearning.com/
The course is 5 ects so the workload is 135 hours all together.
Qualifications
No need for previous studies.
Further information
Avoimen opiskelijoille varataan 10 paikkaa.
Itslearning ja sähköposti