Climate.now basics (5 cr)
Code: TE00BT85-3004
General information
- Enrollment
- 01.12.2022 - 07.01.2023
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 09.01.2023 - 10.03.2023
- Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Local portion
- 0 cr
- Virtual portion
- 5 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Distance learning
- Unit
- Engineering and Business
- Teaching languages
- English
- Seats
- 20 - 70
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Energy and Environmental Technology
- Teachers
- Marketta Virta
- Piia Nurmi
- Scheduling groups
- Vain avoimen AMK:n opiskelijoille (Size: 10 . Open UAS : 10.)
- Small groups
- For Open UAS students only
- Course
- TE00BT85
Evaluation scale
H-5
Content scheduling
Climate.now is mainly done online, but we also have four meetings on the campus (or you can join online).These meetings are for interaction and asking about the tasks (like clinics).
The course starts 9.1.2023 and ends 10.3.2023. You are supposed to dedicate all Mondays to this course.
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: Turku Climate Plan 2029
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.
Pedagogic approaches and sustainable development
Tasks and materials on ITSlearning platform https://turkuamk.itslearning.com/
Four meetings on campus so that students can ask and interact.
Completion alternatives
The only way to do the course is to do the tasks, no alternative ways to complete the course.
Student workload
Suomeksi
Tasks on ITSlearning platform https://turkuamk.itslearning.com/
The course is 5 ects so the workload is 135 hours all together.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Grading:
Learning diary (50%)
Assignment 1 (25%)
Assignment 2 (obligatory but not affecting your grade)
Assignment 3 (25%)
Qualifications
No need for previous studies.
Further information
Itslearning and email