Detail předmětu

Sustainability and Global Change II

FCH-MA_ENG1IIAk. rok: 2025/2026

Global change issues, energy and sustainability issues including energy sources of the world, scientific foundations of energy aspects, solar energy: solar modules, solar-thermal energy, power plants, photovoltaics, ecological aspects, heat pumps, geothermal, wind, wave, water and nuclear energy.

Jazyk výuky

angličtina

Počet kreditů

1

Vstupní znalosti

Passing Sustanability and global change I at UKL first semester.

Pravidla hodnocení a ukončení předmětu

Written 1page report of 12 lectures (4 per semester)
presence on seminars is compulsory

Učební cíle

The students obtain insights into different sectors of environmental research and get to know current aspects and problems relating to phenomena of global change. They develop an interdisciplinary perspective and learn to put contents of disciplinary courses into a wider context.
Students deal extensively with the current debate on sustainability and energy, the get to know alternative energy concepts and are able to evaluate them from an ecological as well as economic perspective.
Students:
- obtain insights into different sectors of environmental research,
- get to know current aspects and problems relating to phenomena of global change,
- develop an interdisciplinary perspective,
- learn to put contents of disciplinary courses into a wider context,
- learn to discuss different environmental issues.

Prerekvizity a korekvizity

Zařazení předmětu ve studijních plánech

  • Program NPAP_ENVI magisterský navazující 1 ročník, letní semestr, povinný
  • Program NPAP_ENVI magisterský navazující 1 ročník, letní semestr, povinný

Typ (způsob) výuky

 

Konzultace v kombinovaném studiu

26 hod., nepovinná

Vyučující / Lektor

Přednáška

26 hod., nepovinná

Vyučující / Lektor

Osnova

Global Change:
Scientists of RPTU and Brno University of Technology as well as external institutions present current approaches and results of environmental science research. The specific contents change from year to year.

Energy and Sustainability:
Sustainability
Energy sources of the world
Scientific foundations of energy aspects
Solar energy: solar modules, solar-thermal energy, power plants, photovoltaics, ecological aspects
Heat pumps
Geothermal energy