Summer 2022 Courses – Climate+ Challenge

Instructors	SUMMER 2022 Courses
Anderson, Brad	ENTR 2110/BUSI 2110: Developing Organizational Wisdom We will use an assignment to explore the resilience of BC’s agricultural sector to extreme weather events.
Anderson, Darren	TMAS 5140 Sustainable Operations This course develops students ability to define and analyze sustainable business practices within the value chain of the product or service in order to develop and integrate sustainable practices at each step of the value chain.
Azaran, Amir	GRMT 6140 Sustainable Operations This course develops students’ ability to define and analyze sustainable business practices within the value chain of the product or service in order to develop and integrate sustainable practices at each step of the value chain.
Bige, Melinda	INDG 1100 Introduction to Indigenous Studies Students will develop informed views on Indigenous cultures and histories, including land defense and land defenders.
Falcus, John	GRMT 6110 Green Marketing Management This course will prepare professionals in understanding and applying green marketing concepts in organizations.
Harding, Lauren	ANTH 1100 R50 Social and Cultural Anthropology We will be covering environmental anthropology, Arctic cultures and the effects of climate change in circumpolar and subarctic regions, “last chance” climate change tourism, infrastructure challenges due to melting permafrost, food insecurity in Northern Canada, human-animal relationships and hunting cultures in the context of climate change.
Immell, Tara	GRMT 6100 Sustainability and Business Administration Students will learn how to integrate, evaluate, report sustainability in organizations. GRMT 6120 Ecological Economics for Organizations This course explores new ways of thinking about how we manage our lives and our planet to achieve a sustainable, equitable, and prosperous future. GRMT 6130 Principles of Green and Clean Technologies for Business and Society’s Sustainability This course covers the introduction to physical and technological principles of solar, indirect solar, and non-solar energies with an environmental policy, social and economic backgrounds.
King, Leonora	GEOG 1102 Physical Geography This course covers the physical basis of the climate emergency in the context of Earth Science and explores how it impacts the land surface and earth system. GEOG 2400 Introduction to GIS Throughout the assignments and projects for this course, We use up-to-date BC wildfire data as well as historical climate data and climate projection data for BC to explore the spatial patterns of climate impacts in BC.
Koch, Joe	GEOG 4350 Climate Change
Koskinen, Paivi	LING 1300 Languages of the World In two weeks of the course we will discuss two different aspects of ecolinguistics: the devastating effects of environmental destruction and catastrophic weather events on endangered languages and cultures, as well as the way popular opinions are manipulated by the language used in commerce and politics.
Lange, Christian	BIOL 1110 Introductory Biology I We will be covering the carbon cycle and the human influences on the carbon cycle.
Menzies, Robert	HIST 3145 Earth & Air/Fire & Water: An Intro to Eco-activist Movements Examines key environmentalist social movements around the world, and climate is covered substantively in the latter half of the course.
Olyaei, Shiva	POST 2200: Public Policy and the Common Good This course examines how governments respond to pressure for collective social change and a sustainable future, within a Canadian context. Using historical and current case studies such as Indigenous sovereignty, racial justice, environmental policy, and the climate emergency, students will examine sustainability goals, the policy cycle and a range of collective action tools.
Pasquini, Robert	ENGL 1202 S13 Reading & Writing About Special Topics (An Introduction to Literature) The special topic for the course is “The Nonhuman World.” Much attention will be paid to the effects of climate change as we study our longest text of the term, Jeff VanderMeer’s The Strange Bird. I also focus on bioregional knowledge, place-based thinking, and Indigenous perspectives of environmentalism throughout the course. Students are given a chance to explore issues that pertain to the nonhuman world as they appear in literature as well as through their original writing for the course.
Richard, Paul	ENVI 2415 Air Quality While the bulk of the course deals with conventional air pollution, it does have a climate/carbon module, discusses abatement strategies, but also ways of measuring CO2 and other GHGs.
Sadoway, David	GEOG 3320 Environment and Resources Climate change mitigation and adaptation issues are explored across all five of the core themes in this course, particularly in those focused on watersheds and coastal zones, biome destruction, energy issues and pollution abatement solutions. For example, a key course assignment requests students to develop a home or community energy audit short video.
Schwartz, Andreas	MRKT 1199 Introduction to Marketing We review marketing principles not only with the primary business objective of attracting, retaining and growing customer revenue but we take a look at the broader issues of ethical and environmental sustainability. This is done through class exercises, discussions, and self-reflection. MRKT 3000 Strategic Marketing Decision Making In this course we develop a complete marketing plan for a “live” client in BC. Research into industry trends, consumer demands, longer term ethical and environmental sustainability are incorporated into the development of the plan with key recommendations presented to client as part of the final project. Students are engaged in research, client dialogue, class exercises and self-reflection.
Shorthouse, Christina	PRLN 1160 Media & Influencer Relations Students research journalists, media outlets and influencers and craft press releases PRLN 2441 Organizational Communications Students learn effective employee communications that support an organization’s culture and create engagement. Employees want to see that their organizations care about the climate emergency PRLN 1120 Writing for Public Relations Students write Op Eds, Explanatory, and Feature articles
Singh, John	MAMT 1300 Trends and Technology C10 We are immersed in climate change; we intergrade climate change by creating a mock factory and then creating a Life Cycle Analysis. From that we conduct many studies, including an Environment Impact Study of the company that students created from the ground up.
Sorensen, Marjorie	BIOL 1110 Introductory Biology I We will be covering the carbon cycle and the human influences on the carbon cycle BIOL 2322 Ecology One section focuses specifically on climate change.
Tebb, Wayne	BUSM 6180 – Graduate Capstone Experience Practicum Reducing Carbon Impact Microgrids /alternative energy/ Energy Storage Circular Economy /Zero waste Converting waste streams Water and waste treatment Smart Cities
Tiessen, Esther	BUQU 1230 – Business Statistics Students will learn statistical concepts using examples drawn from the climate crisis.
Tunbridge, Nicole	BIOL 2322 Ecology Amongst other things, this course will cover basic drivers of climate, carbon cycle and causes and global impacts of climate change on biological communities.
Yoshizawa, Rebecca	ARTS 1100 Science and Society Students in this class will explore the relationships between science and important public issues. They will learn to think critically about the role of science in shaping our worlds. They will gain scientific and social scientific literacy in this course, preparing them for the many possible paths they could take in their future educational pursuits.