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Learn how to live with fire
Would you like to learn how fire works, how bushfires behave, how to design a bushfire resilient garden and what helps create bushfire resilient communities?
If so, you might be interested in Living with Fire - a free, fully online 12-week unit offered by the University of Tasmania as part of the Diploma of Sustainable Living.
Living with Fire is for anyone interested in the many practical and fascinating questions about fire in our lives today. You don’t need any previous experience at university or with fire to enrol.
For more information, go to: https://www.utas.edu.au/courses/cse/units/kpz104-living-with-fire
You can also email the Unit Coordinator, Dr Penelope Jones at Penelope.jones@utas.edu.au
Can’t do the full 12-week course? You might be interested in a free 4-week ‘taster’
If you can’t commit or aren’t sure about taking on the full 12-week unit, you can try a ‘taster’ version of the course. This is also free and fully online and presents the first section of the full 12-week unit.
To sign up for the short course, go to: https://www.utas.edu.au/study/short-courses/living-with-fire
Interested in learning more about how bushfires and bushfire smoke affect mental and physical health?
The University of Tasmania also offer a free online short course Bushfires and Your Health. The course covers how bushfires and smoke affect your physical and mental health, and what you can do about it. You can learn at your own pace, which includes signing in and picking up where you left off at a time that suits you. The course will take you approximately 10-12 hours to complete.
The course will next open for enrolments in spring 2024.
We will post more information when enrolments open, for more information in the meantime email Penelope.Jones@utas.edu.au
