Join Antioch University New England’s Center for Climate Preparedness and Community Resilience for a series of online courses focused on the fundamentals of climate change resilience. There are two ways to learn! You may sign-up for individual courses below or apply for the 9-credit Climate Resilience Certificate for Professionals.
With the ever-increasing and visible impacts from a changing climate, this series of courses, developed within the Sustainable Development and Climate Change concentration of the MS in Environmental Studies program at AUNE, is designed to prepare professionals to incorporate resilience strategies into planning, implementation, and evaluation within any domain of resource management and environmental protection.
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) defines climate resilience as “the capacity of social, economic, and environmental systems to cope with a hazardous event or trend or disturbance, responding or reorganizing in ways that maintain their essential function, identity, and structure, while also maintaining the capacity for adaptation, learning, and transformation” (IPCC, 2014b, p. 1772).
Climate resilience includes aspects of both mitigation and adaptation.
Mitigation involves actions to reduce human-caused greenhouse gas emissions that add to the heating of the atmosphere. Adaptation involves actions that counteract or reduce vulnerability of human systems to climate change impacts.
This series will enable you to:
- Clearly communicate your understanding of current approaches to both mitigation and adaptation, at various scales of implementation.
- Effectively demonstrate an understanding of the interrelation amongst climate change, and water, food, and energy security.
- Provide evidence of ability to structure a vulnerability analysis.
- Articulate preferred adaptation strategies for identified vulnerabilities.
- Demonstrate how to judge the effectiveness of a message generated by either the scientific community or the media that targets decision-makers and the general public about the risks associated with climate change.
- Analyze the effectiveness of a stakeholder engagement process designed to have decision-makers respond to a specific vulnerability.
Each course is designed to stand alone, and you may take courses in any order. Courses may be completed online from your location. Enroll for either graduate credit (1 credit per course) or audit and receive continuing education.
Details of the courses are below.
Is this for me?
These courses are geared toward individuals working on the ground in resource management, hazard mitigation, community planning, business and organizational operations, as well as other professionals looking to expand their knowledge of “how to” implement climate resilience. At the conclusion of each course, participants will leave with specific knowledge and hands-on strategies to implement in their job and their communities. Specifically, this course will benefit:
- Municipal and county professionals (city, county, and town managers; emergency management staff, planners, public works staff, zoning staff)
- State and regional personnel (energy and environment officials, hazard mitigation officers, public health officials, regional planners)
- Local decision-makers (municipal, county, regional, watershed)
- Elected and appointed officials (city councilors, Select board members, Planning Board members, Conservation Commission Members, Zoning Board members)
- Emergency preparedness and hazard mitigation professionals
- Business leaders and staff wanting to increase resilience and business continuity in the face of climate impacts
- Staff of non-profit resource management organizations
- Private environmental consultants
Available Courses
Earth Systems and Climate Change 1 (ESC 5728, Section A)
Delivery: Online, synchronous Dates: June 6th, June 12th, June 21st, June 28th (10:30am – 12:30pm EST)
Online Attendance: Students are expected to attend and actively participate during all synchronous, online sessions. Students may have the opportunity to interface with experts in the field of climate change when they present as guest speakers. On rare occasions, and with permission of the instructor, students may watch video recordings of live sessions if they are recorded. Students complete all assignments based on the syllabus deadlines.
Instructor: James Jordan, Ph.D., [email protected]
Registration Deadline: May 29, 2022
Climate Impacts: Vulnerability and Adaptation Planning (ES 5820, Section A)
Delivery: Online, synchronous
Dates: October 2 – October 29, 2022
Online Attendance: No set times are required for online attendance. Students may complete the assignments at their own pace and schedule within each week. Students will have the opportunity to interface with experts in the field of climate change when they present as guest speakers. However, students may watch video recordings of the guests if they can not attend the live online presentations.
Instructor: Christa Daniels, Ph.D., [email protected]
Registration Deadline: Registration opens in July, 2022
Climate Impacts: Communication, Facilitation, and Stakeholder Capacity Building (ES 5830, Section A)
Delivery: Online
Dates: November 6 – December 10, 2021, 4 weekly asynchronous online lessons (Thanksgiving week off)
Online Attendance: No set times are required for online attendance. Students may complete the assignments at their own pace and schedule within each week. Students will have the opportunity to interface with experts in the field of climate change when they present as guest speakers. However, students may watch video recordings of the guests if they can not attend the live online presentations.
Instructor: Christa Daniels, Ph.D., [email protected]
Registration Deadline: Registration opens in July 2022
Climate Justice and Equitable Adaptation (ES 5860, section A)
Delivery: Online
Dates: Spring 2023, TBD synchronous online sessions
Online Attendance: Students are expected to attend and actively participate during all synchronous, online sessions. Students may have the opportunity to interface with experts in the field of climate change when they present as guest speakers. On rare occasions, and with the permission of the instructor, students may watch video recordings of live sessions if they are recorded. Students complete all assignments based on the syllabus deadlines.
Instructor: Sarika Tandon
Registration deadline: Registration opens in January 2023
Climate Response: Costs and Financing (ES 5850, Section A)
Delivery: Online
Dates: Spring 2023, TBD asynchronous online sessions
Online Attendance: No set times are required for online attendance. Students may complete the assignments at their own pace and schedule within each week. Students will have the opportunity to interface with experts in the field of climate change when they present as guest speakers. However, students may watch video recordings of the guests if they can not attend the live online presentations
Instructor: Christa Daniels, PhD, [email protected]
Credits: 1 or audit for no credit
Registration deadline: Registration opens in January 2023
Policy Advocacy: Climate Change (ESP 5100, section A)
Delivery: Online
Dates: Fall 2022 TBD
Online Attendance: This course meets for one hour weekly, during the dates specified. Students may complete the assignments at their own pace and schedule within each week. However, students may watch video recordings if they cannot attend the live class sessions.
Instructor: Abigail Abrash Walton, PhD
Registration deadline: Registration opens in July 2022
Climate Impacts: Public Health (ES-5750)
Delivery: Online
Dates: Spring 2023, TBD – asynchronous online
Online Attendance: No set times are required for online attendance. Students may complete the assignments at their own pace and schedule within each week. Students will have the opportunity to interface with experts in the field of climate change when they present as guest speakers. However, students may watch video recordings of the guests if they cannot attend the live online presentations.
Instructor: Christa Daniels, PhD, [email protected]
Credits: 1 credit
Registration deadline: Registration opens in January 2023
Business Resilience and Continuity, (ES- 5840, Section A)
Delivery: Online with scheduled zoom meetings.
Dates: Spring 2024, TBD – synchronous online
Online Attendance: Students are expected to attend and actively participate during all synchronous, on-line sessions. Students may have the opportunity to interface with experts in the field of climate change when they present as guest speakers. On rare occasions, and with the permission of the instructor, students may watch video recordings of live sessions if they are recorded. Students complete all assignments based on the syllabus deadlines.
Instructor: Taryn Fisher, PhD, [email protected]
Credits: 1 credit
Registration deadline: Registration opens in January 2024
Registration Information
Each of the courses in the climate change resilience series may be taken for 1-credit of graduate education or may be audited. Please indicate on your registration form if you desire the course for academic credit or desire to audit.
Academic Credit
Individuals who enroll for academic credit will have the course(s) noted on an AUNE transcript and will be graded for the course. Upon completion and processing of the course by the Registrar’s office, then official transcripts can be requested.
Please note that Antioch University New England does not use traditional letter grades. Instead, students will be assessed in four areas: class participation, mastery of course content, quality of documentation, and an overall grade. Learn more about narrative assessment.
If you are interested in earning the Climate Resilience Certificate for Professionals, then a maximum of 2 credits can be earned as a non-matriculated student before one must matriculate. Contact admissions for information on applying to matriculate. If you do not desire to earn the Climate Resilience Certificate for Professionals, then you are welcome to take as many of the courses as you like as a non-matriculated student.
Audit
Those who enroll to audit the course will not be graded or receive academic credit.
Certificates of Attendance
Certificates of attendance will be available upon request to all individuals who participate in all four weeks of the course.
Course Fees
"Try-us-out" discount rate for first course at AUNE, 1-credit | $333.33 |
Alumni discount of 50% off for 1-credit course | $274.00 |
Non-matriculated enrollment for 1-credit course | $548.00 |
Audit for a non-matriculated student - no credit or grades | $330.00 |
Current matriculated AU students, sign-up here and also register and pay in AU View. | The usual tuition and fees for your academic program apply. |
Cancellation and Refunds
Non-matriculated students – requests for cancellations and requests to withdraw from the course that are received in writing 2-days or more before the course starts will be eligible for a full refund. Requests made less than 2-days before the course starts are not eligible for any refund. Requests should be made in writing to Shelley Viles, Director of Centers, Institutes, and Projects, Antioch University New England, 40 Avon St. Keene, NH 03431 or [email protected]
Current matriculated students will follow the usual withdrawal and refund policies for AUNE. Please withdraw via an email to the Antioch University Registrar’s Office and also copy [email protected]
Technical Requirements
For this online course, students will need access to the internet, a computer able to access office suite software, and the ability to participate in online meetings, including video and audio.
We will be using Zoom for online meetings. Please check the Zoom Support Center for system requirements.
