Environment now (5 cr)

Objective

You can identify current environmental issues. You are able to relate environmental issues to a wider context. You understand the impact of politics on environmental issues. You are able to discuss environmental issues competently. You can provide well-grounded solutions to environmental problems. You can interpret sources critically and search for information from reliable sources.

Content

What are the current environmental problems?
How do political decisions and geopolitics relate to environmental issues?
How are environmental issues discussed constructively?
How to solve environmental problems?
How do you justify your opinion expertly?
What is a good source and where to find one?

Evaluation

Students can
· use professional vocabulary and concepts in an expert way in different situations.
· evaluate information sources critically.
· work as team members in working life expert duties and identify and describe the problems of the professional field.
· evaluate operations in customer, user and target group situations.
· choose appropriate models, methods, software and techniques according to the purpose and justify these choices.
· promote teams’ goal-oriented operation.
· apply critically the ethical principles of the professional field in different situations.

Course material

Material available in Learn or from Xamk library. Some openly accessible internet material may be used.

Study forms and methods

Lectures, group discussions and presentations

RDI and work-related cooperation

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Timing of exams and assignments

No exam.
Two PBL cycles, each reported, presented and peer evaluated.
Learning cycle 1 presentations 21.10.2021
Learning cycle 2 presentations 02.12.2021

Individual learning diary due 09.12.2021.

International cooperation

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Student workload

Preliminary assignment (given by the beginning of September) 5 h
PBL cycle lectures, reporting, presenting and peer evaluations 60h
Individual learning diary 70h

Total student workload 135h

Course part description

There are two problem based learning cycles. The first cycle focuses on the reasons of environmental problems and the second on the possible solutions.

More detailed information given in the beginning of the course.
Preliminary assignment given before the beginning of September.

Evaluation scale

Approved/Failed

Assessment methods and criteria

PBL cycles 1 and 2 are reported and presented.
Each student peer evaluates other students.

Individual learning diary has to be accepted for a passing grade.