Thinking and Talking about Climate (OPEN UNI)

Content

Climate change is more than just knowledge and numbers. This inspiring online course by the University of Oulu approaches climate change through emotions. Game elements, such as climate avatars, work as a tool to explore one’s own emotions and practice constructive climate interaction. Growing understanding of the experiences of oneself and others offer the student tools for better everyday conversations. You can complete the course at your own pace.

The central contents:

• spectrum of climate emotions as well as the underlying factors affecting them
• special attention is paid to climate hope and its sources, and ways to maintain it
• constructing climate interaction through acknowledging the personal experiences, reactions and communication practices

Research on climate emotions and climate interaction forms the theoretical base of this course. It is connected to the following Sustainable Development Goals of the UN: 3) "Good health and well-being" and 13) "Climate action".