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 January 5, 2021)
| Course Name | Status | Climate Expert |
| Winter Term 1 – 2020/21 | ||
| Biol 121: Genetics, Evolution, Ecology | Completed | Balsher Singh Sidhu |
| SPPH 381B: Engendering Health for All through Self-Care and Sustainability | Completed | Aubree McAtee |
| EDST 401: Education, School, and Social Institutions | Completed | Aubree McAtee |
| ENGR 499: Engineering Capstone Design Project | Completed | Nigel Deans |
| PLAN 331: The Just City in a Divided World | Completed | Sara Cannon |
| EDCP352: General Science – Secondary: Curriculum and Pedagogy | Completed | Colin Rowell |
| ENVR 448A: Socio-Ecological Systems Research | Completed | Don Shafer |
| Moscrop Secondary School Teacher Workshop | Completed | Imranul Laskar |
| Winter Term 2 – 2020/21 | ||
| ASIC 220: Intro to Sustainability | Upcoming | Sadia Ishaq |
| ENDS211/DES130: Intro to Environmental Design | Upcoming | Andrea Hoff |
| ISCI 360: Systems Approaches to Regional Sustainability | Upcoming | Jenalee Kluttz |
| SOCI 420: Sociology of the Environment | Upcoming | Kevin McCartney |
| VISA 362P: Advanced Practice in Photography | Upcoming | Yuhao Lu |
| ENPH459/479: Senior EngPhys Capstone Project | Upcoming | Farrukh Chishtie |
| ENVE202: Environmental Engineering Science | Upcoming | Imranul Laskar |
| FRST 495: Biological Diversity and Forest Management | Upcoming | Balsher Singh Sidhu |
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.