ENVS 325: Climate Change: Foundations, Framings, and Responses Report a Broken Link
This course examines climate change as a scientific, social, political, and affective issue. You’ll examine what climate change is and consider matters related to it, including those where there is considerable scientific confidence and those where there is still scientific uncertainty. You’ll become familiar with the general history of climate science and global policy responses to it. With this as foundational knowledge, you will spend most of your time in this course examining competing theoretical perspectives that theorize the causes, effects, and potential responses to the issue. As a part of this, you’ll examine the framing, stories, and value assumptions underlying various theorizations and responses to climate change and how emotions influence these responses.
Unit 1: Climate Science—Evidence, Causes, Effects, and Limitations
Unit 2: The History of Climate Science and Global Policy
Unit 3: Emotions and Framing Related to Climate Change
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Unit 4: Climate Stories—Urgency, Dystopia, and Hope
Unit 5: Climate Justice and Intersectionality
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Read the introduction and sections 1, 2, and 3, pp. 5–19 |
Unit 6: Green Growth and Degrowth
Unit 7: Disaster Preparedness—Prepping and Mutual Aid
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Read pp. 10–20 |
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Read pp. 11–24 |
Unit 8: Industrial Agriculture and Agroecology
Unit 9: Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change
Assignments
| Assignment 2 Worked Example |