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Quick Facts

Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
INR 2436yesCoursera

The Syllabus

Videos
  • Introduction to climate change
  • Predicted and potential effects of climate change on lifestyles and the economy
  • Measuring temperature changes over long time periods
  • Excel: Plot a line chart of global temperatures from 1800-present
  • Excel: Visualising the extent of climate change
  • Additional reading for Week 1
Reading
  • True or false?

Videos
  • Climate change: Effects on extreme weather events and temperature variability 
  • Excel: Make frequency tables to summarise global temperatures in the decades 1950-2020
  • Excel: Make column charts to compare temperature distributions
  • Excel: Calculate percentiles of a distribution
  • Excel: Calculate the mean and variance of global temperatures
  • How can we address the effects of extreme weather events? 
  • Additional reading for Week 2
Reading
  • True or false?

Videos
  • How carbon emissions in the atmosphere are measured
  • Excel: Make scatterplots and calculate the correlation coefficient
  • Correlation vs causation
  • How can social scientists identify causal relationships between variables?
  • Additional reading for Week 3
Reading
  • True or false?

Videos
  • How much do people value the environment?
  • Excel: Green growth accounting
  • The challenge of assessing the consequences of climate change on future generations
  • Environmental policies and environmental quality around the world
  • Excel: Environmental impacts of food
  • Conclusion
  • Additional reading for Week 4
Readings
  • True or false?
  • End-of-course assessment

Articles

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