The UAB Barcelona Summer School to start soon, involving ICTA-UAB
On 23 June, the UAB welcomed students participating in this year's UAB Barcelona Summer School. There will be, in this ninth edition, more than five hundred people from 40 different nationalities from five continents. Once again, ICTA-UAB is involved in the project.
UAB Barcelona Summer School comprises a training offer of undergraduate subjects in a range of fields, and takes place from late June to the end of July once the ordinary academic year is over. ICTA-UAB researcher Graham Mortyn is the academic coordinator of the program, and he teaches the course Geography of Global Change.
The UAB Barcelona Summer School celebrates its ninth edition offering 30 courses from all academic fields (Sciences, Biosciences, Health Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Social and Legal Sciences, and Engineering).
Geography of Global Change course is an all-encompassing (global) course designed to consider critically many aspects of environmental threat today, most especially climate change. The course begins with basic principles by which all topics need to be evaluated, including spatial and temporal timescales, principles of “change”, and much more. The course then proceeds with distinct impacts spheres of the Earth, including the atmosphere, oceans, and land surfaces. Special attention will be applied to the oceans given the particular importance of this realm on our blue planet Earth.
The language of instruction is English, although some courses are taught in Spanish. The UAB Barcelona Summer School takes place in two three-week periods, from 23 June to 11 July and from 14 July to 1 August, with a schedule from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Completing a course may be validated for 6 or up to 12 ECTS credits.
This eighth edition of the UAB Barcelona Summer School is committed to continuing the face-to-face nature of the courses, which is the majority of the courses that make up the UAB Barcelona Summer School. The university guarantees compliance with health measures and the development of the courses in a safe environment. You can consult the specifics of each course on the website of the UAB Barcelona Summer School.