GEOG 114
Thinking Globally, Acting Regionally: Geographies of Climate Change
This writing-intensive course engages all fields of inquiry and forms of evidence in the geographies of climate change. Course topics include impacts on human and biophysical systems; mitigation and adaptation; global, regional and local policy efforts; gender and climate; and environmental justice and human rights. Regional and historical approaches underlie all topics. Students will use common rhetorical strategies in writing; trans-disciplinary forms of evidence for characterizing, analyzing, narrating and explaining; additional focus on the arguments, evidence, and rhetorical strategies that climate skeptics use. Includes a research project. Open to non-majors.
Topics
- 1. Using writing for understanding, characterizing, synthesizing, questioning, and communicating with academic, civic, and practitioner audiences; 2. Critical and tactical reading; summarizing and evaluating peer-reviewed articles, policy reports, and narratives, among others; 3. Drafting, revising, and finalizing thesis-driven writing that uses appropriate forms of evidence, with attention to grammar conventions; 4. Peer assessment, editing, and critique of drafts, including for grammar conventions; 5. Collaborating on shared research activities; 6. Creating a research topic from scratch, including research questions and a research proposal; compiling, analyzing, integrating, and communicating research findings; 7. Using library and online research tools, including archival materials; assessing the veracity of information obtained from source materials; documenting sources using standard bibliographic and citation formats.
Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027