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Climate changes in Earth's youngest history

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Course ID: 1300-SZD-WZKNHZ
Erasmus code / ISCED: 07.305 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0532) Earth science The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title: Climate changes in Earth's youngest history
Name in Polish: Zmiany klimatu w najmłodszej historii Ziemi
Organizational unit: Faculty of Geology
Course groups:
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): (not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles:
  • the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS;
  • the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h;
  • 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes;
  • weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS;
  • work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load.
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Type of course:

elective courses
Short description:

The lecture discusses the issues of contemporary climate change, its natural aspects and political and economic attempts to counteract climate change.
Full description:

Lecture during which students become acquainted with the features and changes of climate, its conditions in the Holocene, with emphasis on the youngest, modern part of it, i.e. the basic factors influencing contemporary climate changes. Particular emphasis will be placed on anthropogenic global warming, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other organizations working to counteract climate change, the climate package, the main climate-forming factors, facts and myths related to contemporary climate change and their forecasting, the role of undertaken projects - political and economic.
Bibliography: (in Polish)

http://www.ipcc.ch – IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) Climate Change 2007.

Lockwood J.G., 1984. Procesy klimatotwórcze. PWN, Warszawa.

Schönwiese Ch.-D., 1997. Klimat i człowiek. Prószyński i S-ka, Warszawa.
Learning outcomes:

After the lectures, the student:

– WG_01 – knows and understands to the extent enabling the revision of existing paradigms – global achievements, including theoretical foundations and general issues and selected detailed issues – appropriate for a given scientific discipline within the field of exact and natural sciences

– WG_02 – knows and understands the main development trends of scientific disciplines in the field of exact and natural sciences in which education takes place

– WG_03 – knows and understands the methodology of scientific research within scientific disciplines in the field of exact and natural sciences.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:

Pass with grade based on a test covering the issues discussed during the lecture.
Practical placement:

not applicable

Classes in period "Academic year 2023/24" (in progress)

Time span: 2023-10-01 - 2024-06-16
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Type of class:
Lecture, 30 hours, 20 places more information
Coordinators: Aleksandra Majecka
Group instructors: Aleksandra Majecka
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