Bachelor 2025/2026

Mechanisms of Climate Change

Type: Elective course (Fundamental and Computational Linguistics)

Delivered by: School of Linguistics

When: 3 year, 4 module

Online hours: 20

Open to: students of all HSE University campuses

Language: English

Contact hours: 6

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course "Mechanisms of Climate Change" aims to provide a clear and thorough understanding of how the climate system works. It covers the fundamental principles that form the basis of the climate system, including the natural and human factors that influence it. The course also explores how climate change impacts human activities and why there are individuals who are skeptical about human-induced global warming. Additionally, students will learn about the historical changes in climate over thousands of years and why the current warming trend is generating significant scientific interest. The course also delves into the methods used to reconstruct past climates and make climate predictions for the future. Finally, students will explore the most significant consequences of climate change for humanity.The study of the indicated information leads to a comprehensive understanding of the climate change issues on the global and regional scale, the ability to competently evaluate incoming information, even without having a professional education in this field, and also provides the necessary basis for further study of climate change research and applied climatology problems.Specialized education is not required to attend the course. The online course is published on the Open Education platform: https://openedu.ru/course/hse/CLIMATECHANGE/. Authors of the online course: Bokuchava D.D., Verezemskaya P.S., Dolgova E.A., Kutuzov S.S., Kraev G.N., Chernokulsky A.V., Alexandrin M.Yu., Bichurin R.R.