Climate Change 101. Interdisciplinary introduction to climate change and current environmental crisis.

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Course ID:	2500-F01-OG
Erasmus code / ISCED:	14.4 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. / (0313) Psychology The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Climate Change 101. Interdisciplinary introduction to climate change and current environmental crisis.
Name in Polish:	Klimatyczne ABC. Interdyscyplinarne wprowadzenie do problemu zmiany klimatu i kryzysu ekologicznego.
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Psychology
Course groups:	General university courses General university courses in the social sciences
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. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Type of course:	general courses
Prerequisites (description):	(in Polish) Kurs dostępny dla wszystkich studentów Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Kurs zaczyna się 15.10.2020 Studenci Wydziału Psychologii mogą zaliczyć kurs jako OGun.
Mode:	Remote learning
Short description:	This course is a short interactive and interdisciplinary e-learning course. It provides basic interdisciplinary knowledge about global warming, its mechanisms and consequences for both nature and human society. The course consists of 4 blocks: a basic science block, which gives knowledge about the climate system, rules governing it, the history of the climate on earth and its current changes; a biology block, which gives knowledge about the relationship between the climate and the natural environment; an 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, and a psychological block, which shows the role of individuals, as well as emotions, cognition in response to the climate crisis and indicates the possibilities to take action in the face of the crisis.
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. K_W07, K_W08, K_W09, K_W010 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. K_U05, K_U06, K_U07 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. K_K03, K_K04

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