Interdisciplinary introduction to the contemporary climate crisis

Workshop, 20h,

Forms of classes: This is a hybrid interdisciplinary course. The online part (15h) is self-paced, interactive, and uses the online learning platform Moodle. The workshop part (5h) is focused on psychological and discourse aspects and takes place in one longer session on the Faculty of Psychology.

Teaching methods applied: The online part uses modern interactive tools and quizzes + discussions, the workshop part is a workshop, group work and dialogue.

: This is a hybrid interdisciplinary course. The online part (15h) is self-paced, interactive, and uses the online learning platform Moodle. The workshop part (5h) is focused on psychological and discourse aspects and takes place in one longer session on the Faculty of Psychology. Basic scientific knowledge is an essential resource, which can be helpful to everyone while confronting climate change or environmental crises. This course provides introductory-level knowledge about climate change, its mechanisms, and its consequences for nature and human society. The course consists of 4 blocks: a physical science block, which gives knowledge about the climate system, the history of the climate on earth, and its current change An environmental science block, which gives knowledge about the relationship between the climate and the natural environmentan economic and social sciences block, which shows climate change and destruction of the environment as a tragedy of commons and points to processes dependent on society and economy, Psychology block that shows the role of individuals, emotions, and discourses in response to the climate crisis.

Budziszewska, M., Kardaś, A, Bohdanowicz, Z. (2021) Climate Change, Geting the Basic Right. {Klimatyczne ABC. Interdyscyplinarne podstawy współczesnej wiedzy o zmianie klimatu.} Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.

Lamb, W. F., Mattioli, G., Levi, S., Roberts, J. T., Capstick, S., Creutzig, F., ... & Steinberger, J. K. (2020). Discourses of climate delay. Global Sustainability, 3, e17.

Knowledge | The graduate knows and understands:

WG_02 - the main development trends in the disciplines of the social sciences in which the education is provided

Skills | The graduate is able to:

UW_01 – make use of knowledge from various fields of science, in particular the social sciences in order to creatively identify, formulate and innovatively solve complex problems or perform tasks of a research nature, and in particular to: define the purpose and object of scientific research in the field of the social sciences, formulate a research hypothesis; develop research methods, techniques and tools and apply them creatively; make inferences based on scientific findings

UK_04 - participating in scientific discourse in the field of the social sciences

Social competences | The graduate is ready to

KK_01 - critically evaluating achievements within a given scientific discipline in the field of the social sciences

And others: Knowledge:Students have basic knowledge about anthropogenic global warming, mechanisms governing the climate system and its change, feedback loops in the climate system, and the human role in these processes.Students also have basic knowledge about the mechanisms and connections between climate change and the natural environment and the environmental dimension of the contemporary crisis.Students have basic knowledge about social and economic processes 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. Students can actively search for data and FactCheck. Social competencies (student can do):Students can understand emotions, attitudes, and actions connected with climate change on a micro and macro scale and understand the social dimension of climate and ecological crisis. They actively discuss possibilities and contradictions in individual and collective actions in climate adaptation and mitigation.

Description of requirements related to participation in classes, including the

permitted number of explained absences: The participation is workshop is obligatory, since there is only one workshop, the online part is self-paced, thus can be done any time, before the workshop.

Principles for passing the classes and the subject (including resit session): Passing requirement is doing at least 60% of course quizzes and tasks. Special situations can be discussed individually.

Methods for the verification of learning outcomes: Participation in online forum discussions and quizzes, active participation in the workshop

Evaluation criteria: Online quizzes, tasks and discussions + participation in active parts of the workshop.

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