Spring 2022 Courses – Climate+ Challenge

Instructors	SPRING 2022 Courses
Fairburn, Sue	DEPD 2410 – Design Context. An introduction to systems thinking and how systems mapping can help us understand complex problems, introducing key topics such as climate change, circularity and more and leading to a range of design interventions (products and services).
Hardwick, Jennifer	ENGL 3301 – 19th-Century Canadian Literature in English
Harris, Gregory	BIOL 1110 – Introductory Biology I This course includes material on the carbon and nitrogen cycles, carbon sinks, and human impacts on the biosphere.
Hayes, Jack	HIST 3180 – North American Environmental History
Huestis, Amy	FINA 3201 – Art Practice in the Community Discussions of climate breakdown and climate resiliency.
Ju, Susan	FIND1150 – Designing for Humanity This course enables students to examine the relationship between design decisions, humanity and current and historical environmental issues – to encourage their understanding of the way design impacts individuals, society and the environment. Through research and case studies students investigate climate change, sustainable development, and the SDG goals.
Kaminski, June	NRSG 4620 – Relational Engagement: Community A Nursing and Environmental Health Advocacy learning activity is strongly focused on climate change and nurses. Nurses must be advocates for climate change effects on health and support Indigenous initiatives that promote adaptation and resilience.
King, Conrad	POLI 3500 – Public Debates in Politics
Koskinen, Paivi	LING 1300 – Languages of the World This course includes discussion on Ecolinguistics, the impacts of climate change on language: 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.
Lymburner, Jocelyn	ARTS 2000 – The Science and Practice of Wellness
King, Leonora	GEOG 1102 – Physical Geography
King, Leonora & Sadoway, David	ARTS 1100 – Experiencing the Arts Topic: The Climate Emergency, The World, and Me
Martin, John	GEOG 1160 – Geography of BC Climate woven through the course, including one lecture on climate impacts in BC, and one assignment on BC weather/climate.
Melissa, Drury	ENVI 1121 – Environmental Issues
Olyaei, Shiva	POST 3300 – Sustainability Challenges: Public Policy and the Common Good
Nasitwitwi, Mungandi	GEOG 1102 – Physical Geography GEOG 2310 – Climatology
Pond, Ellen	POST/POLI 4110 – Applied Public Policy Seminar Topic: Adapting to our Changing Climate
Rose, John	GEOG 1160 – Geography of BC
Sadoway, David	GEOG 1101 – Human Geography GEOG 3220 – Urban Planning and Politics GEOG 4501 – Current Geographic Issues: Mobilities, Livability & Climate Change
Sherlock, Tracy	JRNL 2240 – Beyond the News: Feature Writing
Tracy, Dale	ENGL 1100 – Introduction to University Writing This course focuses on university writing, which involves critical thinking, communication skills, and rhetorical awareness. As we work on reading and writing skills, we engage with various texts on various topics, including transgender representation, anti-Black racism, and climate change.
Stonehouse, Cathy	CRWR 3400 – Writing and Science In this multi-genre advanced special topics class, we’ll be looking at the ways science, both as method of inquiry and body of knowledge, can inspire and enrich creative writing projects, and how, in the era of climate emergency, creative writing can in turn bring scientific knowledge and awareness into the public sphere.