Environmental and Climate Change, 10 credits
Academic year 2023/2024
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Spring 2024, 100%, Campus
Start date: 15 January 2024
End date: 25 February 2024
Application deadline: 16 October 2023
Application code: UU-68222 Application
Language of instruction: English
Location: Visby
Selection: Higher education credits (maximum 165 credits)
Registration: Please contact the department.
Entry requirements: 15 credits in environmental science, earth science or biology alternatively participation in 15 credits in sustainable energy transition.
Fees:
If you are not a citizen of a European Union (EU) or European Economic Area (EEA) country, or Switzerland, you are required to pay application or tuition fees. Formal exchange students will be exempted from tuition fees, as well as the application fee. Read more about fees.
Application fee: SEK 900
Tuition fee, first semester: SEK 21,667
Tuition fee, total: SEK 21,667
About the course
The course inspects environmental and climate change during the latest glacial period (ca. 100,000 years before the present). Natural environmental records as well as vegetation and landscape development over time are studied as evidence for environmental and climate change. Influence of man's activities on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems with a focus on environmental contaminants and also contaminated soil and water.