Climate Change and the Senses

4 credits · Undergraduate

This course is intended to be an introduction for students interested in the critical study of climate change. It does so by pursuing questions about the psychic and social forms of life shaped by technologies used to understand, represent, and manage climate change. Of primary concern is what these technologies tell us about the formation of subjectivity and how people sense changes in weather and climate over time. We will explore a variety of cultural and historical locations, and a diverse set of ideas related to climate change such as catastrophe, uncertainty, the Anthropocene, and vulnerability.