Overview
This year-long course continues with Unit 6 (post CALS 504 – Business of Climate Adaptation) focused on continuing the conversations on Western and Traditional Indigenous Knowledges, theories, and perspectives on climate action leadership, climate adaptation, resilience, and design thinking through guest speakers and discussion activities.
Drawing on the Unit 6 readings, and the learning to-date from previous courses, you will continue to develop and deepen your understanding of the competencies and characteristics of climate action leadership. You will also contribute to your blog as a means to analyzing and synthesizing these perspectives and deepening your capacity for trans-disciplinary thinking.
Activities & Assessment Overview
Please see Schedule for important dates for this Unit.
- Unit 6 Activity 1 – Complete required readings.
- Unit 6 Activity 2 – Attend Synchronous Seminar
- Unit 6 Activity 3 – Contribute to the MACAL course community through discussion and blogging.
- Assignment 6. Unit 6 Blog Post
Unit 6 – Activity 1 | Required Readings
This unit provides an opportunity to consider how to draw on your learning from the learning to date (CALS 500, 501, 502, 503, 504) to inform your evolving thinking about climate action leadership. As the final unit of CALS 501, this unit provides an opportunity for a meta-synthesis of your learning to consider the core characteristics, mindsets, and competencies of climate action leadership, as you understand it, and the opportunities and challenges of such leadership.
Unit 6 – Activity 2 | Seminar (synchronous)
Please attend the Unit 3 Seminar, Tuesday June 7th, 16:00-18:30 PT. This seminar will be an opportunity to reconnect with each other and critically reflect on the learning from CALS 504 and the ways in which this course informs your emerging trans disciplinary thinking about climate action.
Unit 6 – Activity 3 | Contribute to the MACAL course community
This is a reminder that really is in place for the entire program – to take time to review and comment on other blogs posts from your MACAL student peers prior to considering how to craft your next one.
Complete Assignment 6 – blog post (individual)
See the Assignment 6 description.
Think of your blog posts as critical academic reflection where you are analyzing and synthesizing as you make connections between theory and practice. Academic blogging requires critical reflection and critical thinking and writing, a process of analyzing and synthesizing ideas, making links between theory and practice, and in the case of MACAL, applying a transdisciplinary lens to your thinking. This resource on Critical Academic Blogging may be helpful to you and don’t forget to explore the resources on the RRU Writing Centre as well, specifically around creating a detailed outline for your writing assignments, specifically the planning with PowerPoint section. You may also consider using creative commons licensing on your blog but that is optional. For more information on Creative Commons licensing see the resource provided on the MACAL program webpage.
See Schedule for Due Date