Environment, Health and Climate Change 2024

 

Content

The aim of this course is to develop your knowledge of global environmental health and climate change and to refine your skills to become leaders in realising the ambitious 2030 Sustainable Development Goal agenda.

This course is appropriate for Bachelor's students in medical sciences, social, and allied sciences as well as environmental sciences. You will benefit from a diverse and challenging multidisciplinary class environment. You would be expected to work within fields in which you are a novice, and should be challenged in your own disciplines. This course will facilitate cross-disciplinary collaboration and communication both in class and in the examination.

Course duration is three weeks full time with one week on-campus and two weeks online. The instruction consists of lectures, seminars, individual and group assignments, and presentations. We will use challenge-based learning with global and local challenge scenarios and collaboration with Uppsala Municipality for the community- and city-based activities.This course is organised by the Department of Women's and Children's Health, with participation from the Department of Earth Sciences at Uppsala University, two other ENLIGHT universities (University of Tartu, Estonia and University of Groningen, the Netherlands) and Uppsala Municipality.

 

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Learning outcomes

On completion of the course, students will:

• Be able to explain the relationships between health, environment, and climate change from an interdisciplinary perspective.
• Be able to describe major environmental health hazards and their sources, and relate these to questions of equity on the local, regional, and global scale.
• Critically analyse evidence of responses to environmental and climate change based on challenges from global health and sustainable development perspectives.

Assessment

In order to pass the course, active participation in all mandatory sessions and passing grades in group presentations (2.5 credits), as well as passing grades in written individual assignments (2.5 credits), are required.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the University's disability coordinator.

 

Lecturers

• Syed Moshfiqur Rahman Uppsala University
• Elena Raffetti, Uppsala University
• Laila Mendy, Uppsala University
• Prof. Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg, Karolinska Institute
• Hans Orru, University of Tartu
• Valentina Gallo, University of Groningen
• Ellen van der Werff, University of Groningen
• Maria Kippler, Karolinska Institutet
• Prof. Joacim Rocklöv, Umea University

 

 

Level: Undergraduate

Entry requirements: General entry requirements for higher education

This course is open for application for students from all 10 ENLIGHT universities.

Students should apply via their home institutions. For information on each university’s procedures, please see below.

• Students from Uppsala University: Students from Uppsala University have to apply by April 15 2023 using the national application service antagning.se.
• University of Bern: https://www.unibe.ch/studies/mobility/outgoing/enlight/index_eng.html
• Tartu University: https://ut.ee/en/content/enlight-blended-courses
• Ghent University: https://www.ugent.be/student/en/class-exam-exchange-intern/exchange-ugent-students/bip.htm
• Students from the other ENLIGHT universities: Please contact your ENLIGHT coordinator to inquire whether and how you can apply.

During the programme, all students will be enrolled at Uppsala University as exchange students.

For info and application, please contact the general ENLIGHT email address of your home institutions.