| Faculty/Staff | Course/Lab/Program |
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| 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 |
| 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. |
| Kegan Doyle | ENGL 1100 Introduction to University Writing In this course, we will be reading “George,” a chapter from Jonathan Safran Foer’s book Eating Animals. In it, he discusses the global food industry and its devastating impact on our environment. Among other things, we will talk about the relationship between meat consumption and climate change. |
| Robert Pasquini | ENGL 1202 Reading & Writing About Selected Topics: An Introduction to Literature ENGL 1202’s selected topic “The Nonhuman World” urges students to explore representations of nonhumans in fiction, poetry, and nature writing, including animals, insects, flora, waterways, and landscapes to investigate topics including kinship, resilience, and climate change. ENGL 3317’s topic of “extinction” will show students in this age of accelerated species loss that the topic has long permeated our discussions and narratives about activism, capitalism, environmentalism, and otherness, as will be shown in primary sources from a range of writers and historical periods. |
| Janet Webster | ENGQ 1092 Professional and Technical English 12 A potential sub-theme is AI and Climate + Challenges. |
| Paul Richard | ENVI 2415 Air Quality GHG emissions (and their measurement techniques) Climate change (in brief) |
| Various instructors | Summer 2023 GEO+ENV Offerings With Climate Content Geography 1101 Human Geography Geography 1102 Physical Geography Geography 1160 Geography of British Columbia Geography 2140 Geography of Canada Geography 2310 Climatology Geography 2380 Qualitative Methods (details below) Geography 2400 Intro to GIS Geography 3310 Natural Hazards Geography 3320 Environment & Resources |
| David Sadoway | GEOG 2380 Qualitative Methods in Geography Open your eyes to powerful research methods for learning about changing communities and societies. |
| Kyle Jackson | HIST 1131 Atom Bombs to the Internet: The twentieth-century world, 1945-2000 Shifts in energy regimes, air pollution as “slow violence”, urbanization, concrete, global environmental movements, Silent Spring, hope (ozone, activist music/art, international regulations on whaling), addressing climate anxiety, the political case for optimism, etc. |
| Paivi Koskinen | LING 1300 Languages of the World In discussing the endangerment of half the languages currently spoken on earth, we investigate two aspects of ecolinguistics: how the environmental destruction and catastrophic weather events brought on by the climate crisis disproportionately impact areas of the globe with the highest linguistic diversity, and how popular opinions are manipulated by the language used in commerce and politics. |
| Andreas Schwartz | MRKT 3211 Integrated Marketing Communications Management MRKT 4201 Integrated Marketing Communication Practicum Introduction of the triple bottom line within an organization and the responsibility of a marketer to communicate the “sustainable value” of an organization in a clear and transparent way. |
| David Sadoway | POST 2140 CityLab: (Re)designing the City for Climate Justice The course will be a great chance for students to hear and learn from community members and guest speakers including First Nations, eco-activists/advocates, City of Surrey staffers, and others; and through doing field studies and experiential learning in/around Surrey Central and potentially along the Skytrain line — focusing on urban climate (in)justices and potential grounded solutions. |
| Lee Beavington | Thriving Aids – Learning Centres In collaboration with Counselling and Student Wellness, developing a series of one-page student wellness thriving aids, including Responding to Climate Anxiety. |