The UBC Climate Hub and the UBC Sustainability Initiative are partnering to launch a pilot project to bring about greater integration of climate change and climate justice content throughout courses across departments starting this fall.
The resource is hosted on the USI website (https://sustain.ubc.ca/climate-teaching-connector). Course instructors are encouraged to use this website to connect and collaborate with climate experts from across the UBC campus who can share their unique expertise with the instructor’s students as guest lecturers.
Questions? Email the project lead, UBC Climate Hub’s Pablo Akira Beimler, at [email protected].
List of Participating Courses (as of November 17, 2020)
| Course Name | Status | Climate Expert |
| Winter Term 1 – 2020 | ||
| Biol 121: Genetics, Evolution, Ecology | Upcoming | Balsher Singh Sidhu |
| SPPH 381B: Engendering Health for All through Self-Care and Sustainability | Upcoming | Aubree McAtee |
| EDST 401: Education, School, and Social Institutions | Completed | Aubree McAtee |
| KIN 262: Health Policy and Society | Upcoming | Dr. Promit Ananyo Chakraborty |
| ENGR 499: Engineering Capstone Design Project | Completed | Nigel Deans |
| PLAN 331: The Just City in a Divided World | Completed | Sara Cannon |
| EDCP 352: General Science – Secondary: Curriculum & Pedagogy | Upcoming | Colin Rowell |
| ENVR 448A: Socio-Ecological Systems Research | Completed | Don Shafer |
| POLI 370: Conflict Management / Peacebuilding | Upcoming | Don Shafer |
| Moscrop Secondary School Teacher Workshop | Upcoming | Imranul Laskar |
| Winter Term 2 – 2021 | ||
| ASIC 220: Intro to Sustainability | Upcoming | Sadia Ishaq |
| ENDS 211/DES 130: Intro to Environmental Design | Upcoming | Andrea Hoff |
| SOCI 420: Sociology of the Environment | Upcoming | Kevin McCartney |
| ISCI 360: Systems Approaches to Regional Sustainability | Upcoming | Jenalee Kluttz |
This year’s cohort has been finalized.
Thank you to all those who applied for this year’s cohort. Stay tuned for future application calls as we look to include a broader community of climate experts in the coming years. We hope to open the next round of applications in Spring 2021.