Course Offerings Archives - ĐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Climate Commons Working Group​ /climatecommons/category/course-offerings/ ĐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University Tue, 17 Dec 2024 15:26:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.1 The Solarpunk Manifesto ​& Radical Hope Course (Feb 3- 24) /climatecommons/2024/the-solarpunk-manifesto-radical-hope-course-feb-3-24/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-solarpunk-manifesto-radical-hope-course-feb-3-24 Tue, 17 Dec 2024 15:26:05 +0000 /climatecommons/?p=4207 Mondays, 7-9 PM EST (4-6PM PST)
​Online on Zoom
120 minute sessions, 4 weeks
February 3rd – 24th
$125 – $375 Tuition

This course will examine the tenets of the solarpunk manifesto, how the solarpunk aesthetic is expressed in visual arts and literature, and how we can make these ideas our own. For years, popular culture has portrayed our collective future as versions of the apocalypse, the climate crisis inevitably leading to end-of-the-world outcomes. Solarpunk, a scifi subgenre and relatively recent social movement, offers a radical alternative to this doom-and-gloom vision by urging us to work together and embrace hope. Through reading, writing, and discussion, students will familiarize themselves with the movement’s most important principles and generate creative responses. We’ll focus on creative thinking, realistic optimism, regenerative futures, and climate justice. Using reflexive practice, we’ll also work backwards from a solarpunk future to identify how we can contribute to the realization of this aspirational vision.

]]> Call for Course Descriptions! /climatecommons/2023/call-for-course-descriptions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=call-for-course-descriptions Tue, 15 Aug 2023 14:32:21 +0000 /climatecommons/?p=3161 If you are instructing an environment-focused course this upcoming 2023-2024 school year on topics such as, but not limited to the climate crisis, environmental humanities, and/or courses that fall under the EACH minor, please consider sending a short course description to Climate Commons. We are looking to publish a concise list for student access to promote environment-focused courses.

If interested, please send a 150-250 word course description with instructor name, course title, and course code to climatecommons@cunet.carleton.ca

]]> Online Grad Course this May: Corporate Power, Fossil Capital, Climate Crisis /climatecommons/2021/online-grad-course-this-may-corporate-power-fossil-capital-climate-crisis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=online-grad-course-this-may-corporate-power-fossil-capital-climate-crisis Fri, 05 Feb 2021 19:04:42 +0000 /climatecommons/?p=1539

Corporate power • fossil capital • climate crisis

A three week-long course open to social science graduate students from across Canada
May 10-28, 2021 • University of Victoria

Join us for the Corporate Mapping Project’s third summer institute, offered by the University of Victoria Department of Sociology.

Space is limited — please RSVP by 28 February to secure your spot. The course is open to graduate students in social science disciplines at any Canadian university (for students at universities participating in the Western Deans Agreement, the course should be eligible for transfer credit, effectively waiving additional tuition). The Institute will be delivered entirely online.

This three week-long graduate seminar combines the sociology of corporate power with the political economy of fossil capital and the political ecology of the climate crisis. The Institute will focus extensively on the search for solutions, beyond business-as-usual, to the deepening climate crisis. The course will be directed by Dr. William Carroll, but will feature presentations, guest lectures and extensive participation from members of the Corporate Mapping Project network, including representatives from environmental, social justice, labour and First Nations groups.

The Corporate Mapping Project is a research and public engagement partnership led by the University of Victoria, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the Parkland Institute. The CMP shines a bright light on the power of the fossil fuel industry by investigating the ways corporate power is organized and exercised ().

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