Summer 2024 Courses – Climate+ Challenge

Faculty/Staff	Course/Lab/Program
Cameron Lait	AGRI 2110 Beekeeping Students will participate in a combination of classroom instruction and field observation/evaluation of honey bees. Students handling, or in close proximity to bees will be required to wear protective equipment and may be required to life equipment weighing up to 20 Kg. Students will participate in colony inspection, equipment assembly and honey collection during the course. The emphasis of the course will be hands-on seasonal management of honey bees, primarily in agricultural systems for the purpose of maintaining colony health and pollinating crops.
Rebecca Harbut, Mike Bomford, and Alex Lyon	AGRI 3390 Agro-Ecosystems Management II Students will build on the crop production principles and practices of integrated crop production covered in AGRI 3290. They will focus on spring and summer operations including work scheduling; transplant production; planting, transplanting, and direct seeding; fertility management; equipment use and maintenance; irrigation; pest management; weed management; warm season cover cropping; harvest; post-harvest management; and record keeping.
Rebecca Harbut	AGRI 3398 Crop Physiology and Ecology Students will explore the interactions of plant communities with their environment across plant life cycles and the implications of this interaction on the quantity and quality of crop yield. Students will learn biochemical, physiological and ecological principles important to the growth and development of crops and interaction with the environment.
Mike Bomford	AGRI 3399 Research Project I Students will continue to build and design their applied research project from AGRI 3225. They will complete the development of a research proposal which includes a justification, detailed workplan and budget for the project and implement the research.
Kathy Dunford	AGRI 4295 Internship Students will identify and participate in an approved internship in the agriculture and food systems sector for a minimum of 120 hours with supervision from a Sustainable Agriculture faculty member. Students will work toward completing specific outcomes and maintain records of their experience and upon completion will prepare a written report and give an oral presentation on their experience.
Lee Beavington	ARTS 1150 Introduction to the Climate Crisis This introductory exploration of climate change will introduce students to a broad range of fields of study and their respective perspectives on the climate crisis. Students will learn key concepts and methods around the theme of the climate crisis and consider questions such as why climate change is happening, what qualifies the climate crisis as an emergency and what it means to people, our society and our world. The course will consider interdisciplinary strategies for solutions to the climate crisis, including critical thinking, storytelling and ethical concerns about the impacts of climate change. Students will learn to view the climate emergency through multiple and sometimes contrasting perspectives, and to critically discuss contemporary discourse around the climate emergency. This course may include field trips off campus.
Christian Lange	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.
Janet Webster	ENGQ 1092 Professional and Technical English 12 In the context of professional and technical communications, we will address Climate+ Challenge issues which impact British Columbia.
Paul Richard and Christopher Hauta	ENVI 2415 Air Quality Monitoring Students will gain experience with comprehensive sampling, instrumentation and analytical techniques used in ambient air and source monitoring, and will learn to apply the scientific principles underlying air monitoring and air quality issues.
Christopher Hauta and Diane Grady	ENVI 2420 Contaminated Sites Management Students will learn the basic principles of contaminated sites management, including site assessment procedures, remediation methods, and the regulatory framework. They will also study the movement of contaminants in soils and groundwater.
Christopher Hauta	ENVI 2902 Environmental Research Project Students will engage in an intensive study of a selected topic in environmental protection technology. They will select a research topic, collect and interpret data, write a report on the results of the project, and present their results.
David Sadoway & Dola Pradhan	GEOG 1101 Human Geography Students in this Summer course will examine the nature and diversity of human geography, and learn to understand and describe the spatial characteristics of human population change, distribution and settlement, social-cultural interactions, and economic activities. Students will also learn how the natural environment (including climate change) facilitates or constrains these activities, and how human activities in turn affect the natural environment. They will learn and apply basic cartographic, qualitative and quantitative techniques commonly used in human geography
Joe Koch & Victoria Tubrett	GEOG 1102 Physical Geography Students will apply basic scientific principles to study three main components of the geophysical system: the atmosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere. They will examine weather and climate processes including the hydrologic cycle, local and regional weather, and climate change. Students will examine internal and external processes shaping the earth including, but not limited to tectonic, volcanic, glacial, coastal, fluvial and hillslope processes. Students will learn and apply a variety of quantitative and qualitative techniques commonly used in physical geography including map use and interpretation
Joe Koch	GEOG 1160 Geography of British Columbia Students will explore the physical and human geography of British Columbia. They will examine how and why environmental, cultural, socio-economic, and political processes have shaped the development of British Columbia and its component regions. Students will consider current topics such as resource management, climate change, Indigenous sovereignty, and urban/rural development.
David Sadoway	GEOG 2050 Climate Change Mitigation & Adaptation Strategies Climate change strategies arguably involve the most pressing socio-economic, techno-scientific, and geo-political challenges of our times. Climate change strategies often include mitigation (greenhouse gas reduction) and adaptation (climate impacts planning) approaches. In this course, students will critically evaluate and devise case studies, policy reviews, projects or labs focused on climate-related strategies employed by communities — including urban, rural, and Indigenous. How climate strategies are unfolding in diverse communities in Canada and beyond will be explored through in-class or desktop research and local fieldwork.
Joe Koch	GEOG 2310 Climatology Students will apply scientific principles and methods to climatological processes. They will analyze climatological and meteorological concepts such as the radiation and energy balance, lapse rates and stability, water budgets and general circulation modelling. Students will examine the use of the concepts in weather and climate forecasting, as well as their use in understanding climate change
David Sadoway	GEOG 2380 Qualitative Methods in Geography This Summer 2024 course will engage students with powerful applied research methods for learning about changing communities, environments and societies. This includes learning about conducting surveys, undertaking observational research (in around Metro Vancouver), doing online media content analyses; and producing visual/video/audio research. Students can apply these diverse skills to focus on local issues/controversies ranging from the climate emergency, environmental changes, racism in urban/environmental design and much more.
Dola Pradhan	GEOG 3320 Environment and Resources Geography Students will examine the principles and practices of environmental resource management. They will explore how resources are conceptualized and assess the effectiveness of resource management systems in addressing environmental issues, preserving ecological capital, and achieving socio-economic goals. They will critically analyse the character, roles and interactions among various actors involved in environmental resource management. They will, in examining these issues, pay particular attention to city-environment relationships. Students will conduct research that addresses a current environmental resource management issue (including a possible focus on climate change).
Kyle Jackson	HIST 1131 Twentieth-Century World (1945-present) Rise of twentieth-century environmentalism (e.g., successes through international cooperation); critical history of the global energy mixer (e.g., oil dependency; extraction economies [e.g., Niger Delta]); critiques in history of consumerism. Climate+-style emphasis on solutions/hope/human agency/cooperation.
Paivi Koskinen	LING 1300 Languages of the World In discussing the endangerment of half the human 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 2500 Environmental Sustainability in Marketing In this course, using the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) as a baseline, students will look at how Canadian marketers consider the triple bottom-line (people, profit, and planet) and consider the rapidly changing customer demands, corporate demands and social demands in Canada, ensuring that future marketers are developing the tools to apply best marketing practices aligned with UNSDGs to create a competitive advantage for their organization. Objective of the course would be to research, consider and apply how Canadian marketers can take a holistic view of sustainability, better understand consumer behaviour towards sustainability, and how organizations can create a competitive advantage by aligning with best marketing practices.