Welcome
In this course you will continue to build on the skills, knowledge, and attitudes explored and developed in CALS 501: Leading Climate Action in Society Part 1. The course includes a quarterly series of week-long seminars that engage you in the theory and practices of leadership development, the application of design-thinking and transdisciplinary thinking to climate action. The structure of this year-long course builds from CALS 501 with quarterly online seminars designed for reflection and integration of all topics underway in the program. The course culminates in a three-day face-to-face conference designed to engage students, faculty, other climate change adaptation experts and professionals, and interested citizens in dialogue, knowledge sharing, and applied solution generation to place-based climate adaptation problems. Topics examined in the seminars include theory of change, climate action leadership, resilience, goal setting and impact. Students will create a poster on their theory of change and will present this poster at the annual MACAL conference. Students will also create presentation that focuses on topics of their choice emerging from their program completion path.
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