Knowledge:

The student has advanced research-based knowledge about the following topics:

• Perception of and attitudes towards climate change
• Risk and uncertainty in climate change perceptions
• Environmental behavior
• Environment and well-being
• Climate change communication
• Climate policy support

Skills:

The student

• Can reflect upon and evaluate research questions in this topic area.
• Can devise and evaluate research designs and methods vis à vis research in this topic area.
• Can analyze climate change related issues with relevant concepts from psychology.
• Can present research within the field of climate change and psychology to an academic audience.

General competence:

The student

• Can search, structure, and reflect upon scientific literature in this topic area.
• Can participate in a research team dealing with climate change and psychology.
• Can communicate psychological research in the field of climate change and environment.

The course consists of a mix of teaching methods that complement each other. Traditional lecture-style teaching is accompanied by other teaching methods that allow in-depth and individually centered learning on specific topics, such as seminars and personal supervision.

Specifically, the course will consist of:

- lectures

- seminars based on suggested readings

- group work in which the students will work together on writing a paper on a sub-topic of the course, which will be submitted for assessment at the end of the course.

- an oral presentation of their group paper.

- Individual independent preparation of the course materials and of the group paper.

In the course the following assessment method is used:

A group assignment of a theoretical or empirical written paper (max. 10 pages/4000 words) within one of the sub-topics of the course

For more information, please contact the student advicer/information centre:

Telephone: 55582710

Email: studieveileder.psyfa@uib.no