How will we teach ‘Uncertain 2 Degrees’?
The course is taught every week on Wednesday (12:15 to 13:45) in room 008 Grindelberg 5. Between the 3rd of April and the 11th of July, we have in total 13 lectures. In each of the lectures, you students will actively participate either in form of open discussions or role-plays. In almost all lectures you will get homework to prepare, mostly in groups.
Together with us, 6 lecturers from different disciplines, we will discuss the question „Which role do uncertainties play in the (scientific-political-media…) debate about the „2-degree-limit“?“. Our main goal is to improve our joint understanding of the different perspectives on uncertainty and the resulting diversity of responses to it.
The course will be structured as follows:
Lecture 1-2 [Introduction]: Input from the lecturers on the course concept and introduction to uncertainty.
Lecture 3- 9 [Perspectives and Participation]: Lecturers will provide input on different perspectives of uncertainty (for more details go to Sessions Plan). Starting from the fourth lecture, you will use the input of the preceding lecture to prepare yourselves for role-plays (see Role-plays and figure 1), which will take place at the beginning of five lectures till the 10th lecture. In between we will have a session, where we jointly going to organise a panel discussion at the end of the semester and a text dicussion session. Different from last year, you are going to get the possibility to actively shape the roles and role-play question for two role-plays. We will give you further details during the semester.
Since this lecture is still at an experimental stage and taught for the first time, we will decide on the content and the structure of the last few lectures later (particularly lecture 11). This allows us to adjust the content and the tasks answering your and our needs.
Lecture 10-13 [Conclusions and Feedback]: Although the last lectures are still up for major changes, we are planning to have a science speed-date session to work on your essays, a panel discussion in the second last lecture and a feedback and a summary lecture during our last meeting. We will provide you with further information on that during the semester.
The course structure is still up for changes. If you have questions or ideas, which are not answered nor covered in the Session Plan, Role-plays or Rules and Procedures, please contact the course coordination.