| Instructor | Course/Lab/Program |
|---|---|
| Ross Laird | ARTS 2000 The Science and Practice of Wellness What does it mean to be healthy? How are health and well-being connected? Especially during times of turbulence and stress — such as a pandemic, or climate change — how can we stay emotionally healthy and connected to ourselves and those around us? In Arts 2000, we’ll explore these themes and examine evidence-based strategies for cultivating mental health and well-being, building capacity in relationships and families, and navigating stressful circumstances toward healthy outcomes for everyone. |
| Lucie Gagne & Marlis Joller | ARTS / DESN 3000 Interdisciplinary Amazon Field School The Amazon Field School (AFS) is a collaboration between KPU and the Calanoa Project, a nongovernmental organization (NGO) in Colombia. The AFS offers students the opportunity to travel to the heart of the Amazon Rainforest of Colombia and engage in an intensive, multidisciplinary field study experience for a period of two weeks. As the Amazon region is one of the most biologically diverse areas on Earth, and rich in natural and cultural history, it is an ideal setting for students to learn about the conservation of biological and cultural diversity, and to foster environmental awareness. The AFS focusses on creativity, sustainability, and cultural immersion. We examine the ancient and modern practices of creative endeavor both in the Amazon and in our own lives and explore the great gifts we might receive from those we encounter (storytellers, builders, shamans, villagers, dancers, craftspeople of all stripes, musicians, myth-makers, and so on). The course utilizes interdisciplinary methods and practices, which offer a single lens that moves across all domains of knowledge. This course explores the many dimensions of creative inquiry in the Colombian and Amazonian context. The course is, for the most part, led by the initiatives and interests of students working individually and in groups. |
| Various BIOL instructors | BIOL 1110 Introductory Biology I Students completing the Biomes and Ecosystems unit of this general biology course will be able to explain the significance of the elements carbon and nitrogen to living organisms and outline the major steps in the cycling of these elements in the biosphere. They will further discuss the impact that humans have made on biogeochemical cycles and ecosystems and discuss their implications. |
| Megan Marcotte | BIOL 3215 Zoology Impact of climate change on some animal taxa will be mentioned. |
| Megan Marcotte | BIOL 4235 Marine Biology The impact of climate change on some ecosystems and taxa will be mentioned. It’s possible students may focus on an aspect of climate change in their research project. |
| Victor Martinez & Sue Fairburn | DEPD 2410 Design Studio 3: Design Context Systems Thinking and Design Thinking for complex social problem solving. This term we are investigation 5 interrelated topics for the Meto Vancouver area: housing, healthcare, transport, foods security and political systems. Climate change is central to the entire process as the idea of intervening those systems looks at making them more resilient and sustainable to the long term (we will be proposing actions probably all the way to 2050 or maybe more). |
| Sue Fairburn | DEPD 3610 Studio 5 Design Implementation This is a studio course where students work with local communities of users and industry to identify problems and design and prototype equipment and gear in response. This year’s project is on coastal conditions; marine rescues. Students research and consider Climate change as central to the need for rescuing people from the water. Climate Change is affecting sea level and more frequent weather conditions (high winds, storm surges, king tides, atmospheric rivers) which increase the risks of working and playing on the water. Students face the challenges of climate change and consider how to design climate and context appropriate solutions. |
| Gillian Dearle | ENGL 1100 Introduction to University Writing Topics/readings such as “World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2022”; marine plastic, electric vehicles, online shopping and over-consumption, overpopulation, climate change, fast fashion and its environmental and social impacts, is green growth possible. For the research essay, topics involve identifying problems and providing solutions to environmental issues, or looking at whether solution X really does solve the problems it claims to and whether it creates additional problems. |
| Dale Tracy | ENGL 3370 Life-Writing This course focuses on how life writing involves creative self-reflection to explore ways that we might live well together: physical and mental wellness, just social and political structures, and liveable and sustainable environments. |
| Melissa Drury | ENVI 1121 Environmental Issues Students learn about climate change, as well as how it affects and is affected by fresh water resources, air quality, solid waste, smart growth, green infrastructure, urban transportation, food & agriculture, biodiversity, land use & mining, and more. |
| Susan Ju | FIND 1150 Designing for Humanities Ecological vitality, Sustainable tools in design (Design frameworks – cradle to cradle, LFA, biomimicry…). Planned obsolescence, social issues, etc. |
| Erin Ashenhurst | GDMA 4240 Contemporary Issues in Graphic Design We focused a class on the theme of human behaviour in relation to climate change and climate disaster looking at Kate Beaton’s graphic novel ‘Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands,’ and articles relating to Douglas Rushkoff’s book ‘Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires’. Students produced imagery and reflective text responding to the material. |
| John Martin | GEOG 1160 Geography of British Columbia Two assignments that involve questions regarding how BC will change due to climate change. |
| Jack Hayes | HIST 2380 Global Environmental History Related to Climate+ Challenge – we do a one week unit on atmosphere in the environment and climate change. A set of discussion questions related to this topic. As a one off, if needed by students, there is a further writing assignment that tackles this subject area and challenges students to analyze different layers of climate change and air pollution challenges linked to food and resource chains tied to their individual daily life. |
| Nicola Harwood | IDEA 3100 Creativity, Imagination and Innovation This is a land based pedagogy course where students do the same walk (of their choice) for nine weeks, relationing with a specific area. The assignments include researching and understanding the land’s Indigenous history, the flora and fauna of the land as well as knowing the land through various lens, including city planning, biodiversity strategies, artist restoration projects as well as its political power and meaning. The text is Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass plus many videos and articles addressing issues from land sovereignty, rights and legal jurisdiction to the Land Back political movement to art / science ways of seeing / knowing to films on Indigenous artists who are also land/culture activists. The entire course is an attempt to re-build relations with land in whatever form (suburban, neighbourhood, park, etc) the students encounter it, in order to build investment and depth of understanding of the value and properties of being in good relations with the land. |
| Paola Gavilanez | IDSN 2400 Studio 4 Multi-unit residential design with a focus on green design and sustainable initiatives. |
| John Singh | MMAT courses Environmental impact studies or reports from manufacturing from all fields, from food production to making tires or solar panels, derived from Life Cycle Analysis report or study that students have created from research. |
| Shiva Olyaei | POST 1200 Inclusive Communities, Sustainable Futures POST 3300 Sustainability Challenges: Public Policy and the Common Good Sustainability and environmental protection, the wicked problems of climate change, global warming, fossil fuel dependency, deforestation, desertification, poverty, the tragedy of commons, green careers, corporate greed and social responsibility. Climate justice, climate racism, food sovereignty and security. |
| Fabricio Telo | SOCI 1125 Introduction to Society The course introduces students to basic concepts in sociology (socialization, culture, gender, race, class, etc.) and one of the classes is dedicated to environmental sociology, where I address climate change from a sociological perspective. |
| Darren Anderson | TMAS 5140 Sustainable Operations Sustainable Operations Renewable Energy Regenerative Agriculture Climate Change |