Students that are planning on registering for Climate+ Challenge classes in this coming Summer 2022 semester will find an incredible list of options to choose from in departments ranging from History and Linguistics to Public Relations and Biology. Even those who prefer to take condensed courses in the summer might find something that interests them.

Robert Menzies will be teaching HIST 3145: Earth & Air/Fire & Water: An Intro to Eco-activist Movements in-person at the Surrey campus, a class where students will learn about international environmental activism throughout history. This class also boasts no textbook costs.

In LING 1300: Languages of the World, Paivi Koskinen teaches about “the devastating effects of environmental destruction and catastrophic weather events on endangered languages and cultures.” This online asynchronous class also has no associated textbook costs and is running in the first session of condensed courses.

Christina Shorthouse is offering PRLN 1120: Writing for Public Relations, PRLN 1160: Media & Influencer Relations and PRLN 2441: Organizational Communications as Climate+ Challenge courses, where students will learn how to express a company’s interest in fighting climate change. PRLN 1120 will be blended synchronous, PRLN 1160 will be condensed and in-person at the Surrey campus and PRLN 2441 will be in person at Surrey as well in the second session of condensed classes. All three courses have zero textbook costs.

In the Faculty of Science and Horticulture, students can take Marjorie Sorensen’s section of BIOL 1110: Introductory Biology I as well as her section of BIOL 2322: Ecology to find climate change learning. Both classes are in-person, and in BIOL 1110 students will find information on “the carbon cycle and the human influences on the carbon cycle” while BIOL 2322 has an entire portion of the course focused on climate change.

Also teaching BIOL 1110, Christian Lange will be offering the class in a blended synchronous way at Surrey, also offering learning about the carbon cycle. Nicole Tunbridge is teaching a section of BIOL 2322 as well this semester in Langley, with a focus on “basic drivers of climate, carbon cycle and causes and global impacts of climate change on biological communities.”

Courses on this list will teach about climate change from different angles appropriate to their respective departments. Short descriptions of the connections to climate change in each course can be found on the Summer 2022 Courses page, as well as all the other options by a variety of other instructors.