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    Climate change is the most pressing challenge of our time. Learn more about the science behind it, ponder your own relationship to it and how it connects to your study field, and discuss the topic with other students in multidisciplinary groups on Aalto Climate.now course. The course is open for all students of Aalto!

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    The course will assess the scientific foundations of climate change, its effects, mitigation and adaptation to the change. During the course students will reflect how climate change is related to their own field of study, and how everyone can be part of the transformation to sustainable, low-carbon society. This time also social psychological questions related to climate change will be considered and relations between climate crisis and corona crisis will be reflected. Course consists of independent study, online group work in multidisciplinary groups, a project work and writing a learning diary. We also use an online climate game En-Roads to simulate the actions for mitigating climate change.

    DUE TO CORONA EPIDEMIC, THE COURSE WILL BE FULLY ONLINE. 

    The course can be taken as full 5 ECTS-credit course (including project work) or as smaller 3 ECTS-credit course (self-study, no project work). 

    The course is open for all students of Aalto University. All students from candidate level to doctoral students are welcome to the course.

    Study material: "Climate.Now / Ilmasto.nyt" web-based MOOC learning material (developed by Finnish universities and Sitra). Available both in Finnish and English. www.ilmastonyt.fi www.climatenow.fi.

    Work methods: Online lectures, self-study of the online MOOC material, group work in multidisciplinary teams, and learning diary. Evaluation is based on project work, learning diary and returned MOOC multiple choice certificate.

    Course language: Climate.now MOOC material is available both in Finnish and in English. Learning diary can be written either in Finnish or English, according to student's own choice. The course communication language is English.


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