MSc in Climate Change: Policy, Media & Society

This is a Masters programme run by centre members in conjunction with the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at DCU. It is a one-year (fulltime), or two-year (part-time) programme which looks at societal responses to climate change across a range of arenas: media, policy, politics, education, film etc., and introduces students to perspectives and concepts from the social sciences and humanities.

A key module in semester 1 introduces students to the science of climate change, and then the other modules build up and out to examine how and why, given the clear message from the physical sciences, societies have been so slow to implement meaningful climate action.

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Programme Videos

RTÉ News spoke to students, staff and graduates of our MSc in Climate Change: Policy, Media & Society for a news report on the growing demand for climate change education. You can watch the video via the tweet below.

"There's going to be a huge demand for people with expertise"The generation that has grown up with climate change is now choosing to study it, with one Irish university seeing a rapid growth in its climate-related courses. pic.twitter.com/eP1O4Td10r— RTÉ News (@rtenews) November 13, 2021