Welcome
In this course you will continue to build on the skills, knowledge, and attitudes explored and developed in the first year of the program, and in particular CALS 505: Leading Change, to explore specific current issues and events related to climate action. The structure of this year-long course builds from CALS 501 and CALS 505, with quarterly online seminars designed for reflection and integration, and the further refinement of your leadership approach, leadership development plan, and the application of your leadership approach to specific climate issues. The course culminates in a hybrid climate action summit focused on dialogue, knowledge sharing, and applied solution generation to place-based climate adaptation problems.
Course Learning Outcomes
- Examine personal beliefs and worldview with a critical lends to develop solutions, strategies, and recommendations.
- Apply transdisciplinary thinking to complex climate-related problems and issues.
- Evaluate the rigour and validity of adaptation research and information with a critical lens to deepen knowledge that informed arguments, choices and practices.
- Discern and describe personal leadership style, strengths and limitations.
- Recognize own and others multiple identities, experiences and biases and how these affect their ability to lead.
- Mobilize knowledge to share, reuse, and contribute to the commons.
- Adapt in positive and resilient ways to changing circumstances and in working with iill-structured programs.
Ways to Stay Connected
- To each other via the course blog and your own WordPress blogs – be sure to set up your Feedly. See here for instructions. You will need to add the OPML files to your Feedly for each course.
- #RRUMACAL on twitter;
- subscribe to the Resilience by Design YouTube channel
- Instructor email addresses can be found in Moodle.