TD Library - Courses
Transdisciplinarity in Fisheries and Ocean Sustainability - course in English
DESCRIPTION:
A course in English focused on transdisciplinary work in Fisheries & Ocean Sustainability. Includes four modules with different types of materials:
Module 1 - Wicked problems & governability
Module 2 - The fundamentals of TD
Module 3 - Unpacking governance & governing systems
Module 4 - Broadening the scope
LANGUAGE: English
LINK: http://toobigtoignore.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/TD-Handbook_TBTI_-June-2021_English.pdf
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Transdisciplinarity in Fisheries and Ocean Sustainability - course in Spanish
DESCRIPTION:
A course in Spanish focused on transdisciplinary work in Fisheries & Ocean Sustainability. Includes four modules with different types of materials:
Module 1 - Wicked problems & governability
Module 2 - The fundamentals of TD
Module 3 - Unpacking governance & governing systems
Module 4 - Broadening the scope
LANGUAGE: English
LINK: http://toobigtoignore.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/TD-Manual_TBTI_2021_Espan%CC%83ol.pdf
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Partnering for Change: Link Research to Societal Challenge
DESCRIPTION:
A full MOOC course in English focused on introducing transdisciplinary research and work. The course is divided into six units organized in weeks:
Week 1: Complex societal challenges - A tough nut to crack
Week 2: Transdisciplinarity - Introduction and clarification
Week 3: Setting up a transdisciplinary research project
Week 4: Jointly conducting research
Week 5: Reap the rewards - Jointly producing outcomes
Week 6: Effects of Involvement: moments of change
LANGUAGE: English
LINK: https://tales.nmc.unibas.ch/en/partnering-for-change-link-research-to-societal-challenges-46/
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Climate, Environment, and Health for the Americas - Mobilizing transdisciplinary knowledge and training for policy action
DESCRIPTION:
All materials of a full course in English focused on introducing transdisciplinary research and discussing different dimensions of transdisciplinary work, such as project writing and communicating results to broad audiences. The course includes five sessions, five workshops, and one masterclass
Session 1: Introducing Transdisciplinary Research Approaches
Master Class 1: Challenges of and solutions for science communication
TD Session 2: Doing Transdisciplinary Research
Workshop 2: Quick guide to writing for a broad audience
Session 3: Designing & Implementing Transdisciplinary Research Approaches
Workshop 3: Telling Stories Through Data
Session 4: Managing Transdisciplinary Teamwork
Workshop 4: How to explain science to a broad audience
Session 5: Transdisciplinary Grant Writing, Assessment & Evaluation
Workshop 5: How is public policy designed, and how can I become a better advocate?
LANGUAGE: English
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Building Sustainable Communities: The Impact of Engagement
DESCRIPTION:
A complete course providing an introduction to sustainable communities and an in-depth look at community engagement. The objective is to foster transdisciplinary research on future scientists. Organized in five modules:
Module 1: Introduction to Community Engagement
Module 2: Information Gathering and Sharing
Module 3: Collaboration
Module 4: Monitoring and Evaluation
Module 5: Creating Connections for the Future
LANGUAGE: English
LINK: https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/bscmodule1/front-matter/introduction/
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D-Lab: Water, Climate Change, And Health
DESCRIPTION:
A complete course focused on complex water and climate change problems. The course is divided into eight topics:
1. Introduction and weather history
2. Water, Climate Change, and Health Intro
3. Climate 1-4
4. Water & Climate Change
5. Game
6. One Health
7. Storm Water Management
8. Oceans
LANGUAGE: English
LINK: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/ec-719-d-lab-water-climate-change-and-health-spring-2019/pages/syllabus/
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Reforming Natural Resources Governance: Failings Of Scientific Rationalism And Alternatives For Building Common Ground
DESCRIPTION:
A course aimed at examining the limitations of scientific management as a model both for governance and for gathering and using information and describing alternative methods for informing and organizing decision-making processes. It is divided into 13 topics:
1. Conflict Over Cougars: A Window on Scientific Management
2. The Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program
3. “Conservation is Like Warfare”: Science and Management of Grizzly Bears in the Northern U.S. Rockies
4. Introduction to Scientific Management
5. Key Orienting Concepts
6. A Personal Perspective on Change-Oriented Leadership
7. Some Analytic Tools
8. Psycho-sociology at the Science / Policy Interface
9. Upland Free Water: Past, Present and Future in the Grand Staircase
10. Dilemmas of a Modern Science Bureau in a Post-Modern World
11. Wildlife Water Developments and the Social Construction of Conservation Conflict
12. Decisions Based on Sound Science: Fact or Myth?
13. Grouse Comprehensive Conservation Strategy: A Role for CSI?
LANGUAGE: English
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Science Activism: Gender, Race, And Power
DESCRIPTION:
A course on the history of science activism seeking to elucidate current and future intersections between science, ethics, gender, race, and public policy. It is divided into 11 topics:
1. Science, power, and social responsibility
2. Nuclear weapons and gender
3. The Nuclear Freeze campaign and the role of organizers
4. The birth of environmentalism
5. Climate change
6. The Civil Rights movement
7. Vietnam War protests by scientists
8. The March 4 movement
9. Concerns about genetic engineering
10. The status of women in science
11. Intersectional feminism
12. Student activism at MIT, 1980s to present
LANGUAGE: English
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Planning For Sustainable Development
DESCRIPTION:
A course on how to engage the potential for change that exists in relationships within and among organizations. The course is divided into two parts:
Part I: Framing Sustainability: Global Problems and Local Actions
Part II: Local Sustainability Initiatives: Networks, Designs, and Communities of Practice
LANGUAGE: English
LINK: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/11-366j-planning-for-sustainable-development-spring-2006/pages/syllabus/
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Sustainability: Political Economy, Science, And Policy
DESCRIPTION:
A course examining alternative conceptions and theoretical underpinnings of sustainable development. It focuses on the sustainability problems of industrial countries and of developing states and economies in transition. It also explores the sociology of knowledge regarding sustainability, the economic and technological dimensions, and institutional imperatives, along with implications for the political constitution of economic performance. It is divided into three main topics:
Part I: Content & Context
Part II: Actors, Processes & Institutions
Part III: Strategic Issues
LANGUAGE: English
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Environmental Sustainability in Practice
DESCRIPTION:
A course in English highlighting the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary nature of environmental sustainability, the complexity of the field, as well as the positive steps that are being taken toward a more sustainable world. The course covers five aspects of sustainability:
1. Education
2. Planning and management
3. Agriculture
4. Geospatial technologies
5. Communications.
LANGUAGE: English
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Worldviews - From Sustainability to Regeneration
DESCRIPTION:
A MOOC course that brings together science, design, and transformative praxis as a fluid, intervention-based, and synergistic process for addressing complex challenges. The course is divided into six topics:
1. Global crises and local solutions
2. From sustainability to regeneration
3. Reframing complexity
4. Ways of knowing and reasoning
5. Design as nature
6. Mind and movement
LANGUAGE: English
LINK: https://online.ethz.ch/courses/course-v1:ETH+RRS-01x+2022_t2/about
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Stakeholder Collaboration: Organizing for Environmental Justice and Equitable Solutions
DESCRIPTION:
A course focused on the power of leveraging transdisciplinary (TD) approaches to plan, implement, and govern the co-design of solutions to complex environmental problems impacting environmental justice and public health. It is divided into 5 modules:
1. Stakeholder engagement and environmental management
2. Creating a shared vision for greater outcomes
3. Tools for engagement
4. Managing conflict
5. Risk management, evaluation, and maintaining relationships
LANGUAGE: English
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The Science Advisory Toolbox for Environmental Management
DESCRIPTION:
A course presenting how today’s conservation leaders can still “change the conversation” and guide society toward solutions for complex resiliency and sustainability problems that benefit all stakeholders and future generations. It is divided into 5 modules:
1. Frameworks for socio-environmental management
2. Conservation and environmental movements
3. Science advising strategies
4. Stakeholder engagement and co-production
5. Socio-environmental problem solving
LANGUAGE: English
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Co-Production: Addressing Complexity with Environmental Adaptive Management
DESCRIPTION:
A course presenting how complex environmental projects are defined by leadership via influence and collaboration across participatory groups that see it in their interest to engage and co-produce sustainable outcomes. It is divided into five modules:
1. Modern Leadership
2. Team Leadership
3. Building Effective Relationships for In-Person, Hybrid, and Digital Teams
4. Program Scaling Strategies for Complex Teams
5. Co-Production in the Chesapeake, Complex Multi-Organizational Problem-Solving
LANGUAGE: English
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Indigenous Knowledge and Perspectives on Climate Adaptation
DESCRIPTION:
This course invites learners into deeper thinking, reflection, and content pertaining to Indigenous perspectives in climate adaptation and mitigation.
LANGUAGE: English
LINK: https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/indigadapt/
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