Welcome to Climate Change Leadership in Practice distance course autumn 2024!
The course starts September 2, runs over the whole autumn semester and ends January 17, 2025, with the hand in of the final examination at 17.00. The distance course consists of self-study, online lectures, videos, podcasts, texts and reading of course books, and mandatory online seminars and workshops. The semester is divided between an intensive four-week start of the course followed by ten weeks of working on a climate leadership challenge you come up with and develop, with mandatory reports every second week. December 13 we have a mandatory online course conference where you present, communicate the project you have worked on. The last part of the course is spent on writing the final examination text. There’s no in-person, mandatory sessions in Uppsala, only online mandatory sessions with fixed dates and times.
Schedule and online parts
The course is scheduled as follows:
- Week 1 Sep 2-6: Climate, leadership and history. https://www.cemus.uu.se/cclip-2024-week-1/
- Week 2 Sep 9-13: Current critical climate issues and leadership. https://www.cemus.uu.se/cclip-2024-week-2/
- Week 3 Sep 16-20: Justice, power, gender and your work. Coming LINK
- Week 4 Sep 23-27: Prep for work in the field, methods and how to lead your work. Coming LINK
- Week 5-14 Sep 30-Dec 12: Work on larger project and continuous report backs every second week. Coming LINK
- Week 15 Dec 13: Course conference presentation onlne. Coming LINK
- Week 16-20 Dec 16-Jan 17: Writing documentation, final examination of larger project work. Coming LINK
Examination schedule
Mandatory assignments, seminars and examination deadline are scheduled as follows (click below to submit assignments in Studium):
- September 6 at 12.00: Submit written preparation assignment week 1
- September 6 at 13.15-15.00: Mandatory online seminar week 1
- September 13 at 12.00: Submit written preparation assignment week 2
- September 13 at 13.15-15.00: Mandatory online seminar week 2
- September 20 at 12.00: Submit written preparation assignment week 3
- September 20 at 13.15-15.00: Mandatory online seminar week 3
- September 27 at 12.00: Submit written preparation assignment week 4
- September 27 at 13.15-15.00: Mandatory online seminar week 4
- October 11: Submit Report back 1
- October 25: Submit Report back 2
- November 8: Submit Report back 3
- November 22: Submit Report back 4
- December 6: Submit Report back 5
- December 13 at 13.15-16.00: Presentation course conference online
- January 17 at 17.00: Submit written documentation, final examination
Syllabus and learning outcomes
You can read the syllabus here: Syllabus for Climate Change Leadership in Practice. The course goals that are examined are:
On completion of the course, the student should be able to:
- account for climate variations over time, key climate science concepts and the most important conclusions of different research areas;
- account for climate change and leadership from an environmental history perspective;
- summarise and critically relate to different perspectives, central theories and concepts regarding climate change and leadership;
- account for and problematise current issues, research and scientific debates within the climate change leadership field;
- describe climate change and leadership from a justice, power and gender perspective;
- identify, analyse and critically relate to power relations, ethical dilemmas and conflicts which may occur in the work within the field;
- use various communicative strategies and methods regarding climate change and leadership;
- design a practical specialisation within the climate change leadership field;
- apply relevant methods and lead a work in the climate leadership field;
- author an interdisciplinary text within the climate change leadership field;
- in an interdisciplinary and popular scientific manner communicate the results of work within the climate change leadership field.
Grading criteria
Course literature and online learning material
During the course you will read the following books (mandatory) and work with online learning material available on the different parts-pages here at CEMUS web page. Click on book cover when possible for free access or more information.
Grint, K. (2010). Leadership: a very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Tamm J. W. (2020). Radical Collaboration: Five Essential Skills to Overcome Defensiveness and Build Successful Relationships (2nd ed.). London, UK: HarperCollins Publishers.
Solnit, R. & Lutunatabua, T.Y. (eds.) (2023). Not too late: changing the climate story from despair to possibility. Chicago, Illinois: Haymarket Books.
Haarstad, H., Grandin, J., Kjærås, K. & Johnson, E. (eds.) (2023). Haste: the slow politics of climate urgency. London, UK: UCL Press. Free access here: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10162046/1/Haste.pdf
Rodríguez, I. (2023). Just Transformations: Grassroots Struggles for Alternative Futures. London, UK: Pluto Press.
Elective book focused on and supporting your own work during week 5-15.
Tech and communication
To be able to study the course you will need a computer, tablet or smartphone with access to the internet. Seminars, workshop and online meetings will be easier if you have external headphones with a microphone. It’s important that you download Zoom here: https://www.uu.se/en/students/it-for-students/software/zoom and install it on the device you’re using for the course. You can test video and audio in the settings.
You can ask general questions at the end of mandatory sessions online, and course coordinator Daniel Mossberg is available every week day Monday to Friday via text/sms 073-065 02 28, call if there’s anything urgent. Emails will be responded to within one week at daniel.mossberg[a]cemus.uu.se.
Looking forward to meeting you all in September!
Daniel Mossberg