Hosting a Climate Literacy Module: What to Expect
Our modules are short, flexible, and designed for integration into any UMass course. Delivered directly to your class by the SES team, these sessions use a student-centered, place-based approach that leverages the UMass campus as a real-world living lab.
Available Modules
Instructors can sign up to host one or more of the following foundational modules:
- Climate Literacy Primer (Science): Provides the foundational knowledge necessary to understand the climate crisis, including scientific principles and the scales of impact from local to global.
- Climate Justice (Social Justice): Developed in collaboration with the College of Education’s Social Justice Education Program, this module focuses on equity, ethics, and the uneven distribution of climate burdens across populations.
- Science and Solutions: Shifts the focus from problems to action by exploring systems-thinking and scalable real-world solutions (e.g., energy, policy, technology) to foster personal and collective agency.
Sign Up
Interested in hosting one or more modules? Email Roisin Kirby, Climate Literacy Educator and SES Graduate Fellow, at @email for more information.
MEET THE INSTRUCTOR
Roisin Kirby
PhD Fellow and Climate Literacy Educator
Roisin Kirby, a PhD student in the Social Justice Education program, is the Climate Literacy Fellow at the School of Earth & Sustainability. The focus of her research is sustainability education pedagogies. Within her role at SES, she designs and implements the Climate Literacy Program. Roisin’s background is in agriculture, outdoor education and sustainability studies.