Perspectives on the Climate Change Challenge

1.5; 3.0 credits · Undergraduate

This university-wide seminar series provides critically important perspectives on the grand challenge of climate change. Speakers from Cornell University and other institutions and will cover a range of topics including the science of climate change, implications for ecosystems, oceans, forests, agriculture and communities, the important ethical, philosophical and legal insights on the issue, and provide thoughts on societal responses through international mechanisms, economic drivers and communication tools. This seminar series counts towards the requirements of the climate change minor and the ESS minor and major. The three credit version of this course provides an opportunity to explore the material introduced by the various speakers in depth through discussion and reading.