Climate Studies
These courses will help you develop the knowledge necessary to understand the earth’s climate systems. You will examine and analyse the role of human activity on the earth’s climate and its effects on the present and future climate scenarios, and identify the effects of climate change on biodiversity through the lens of historical changes in the Holocene. We hope you will apply systems thinking to examine the origins of the climate crisis and proposed solutions and grow comfortable with civic engagement and transfer of knowledge and resources for climate solutions at different levels.
Courses
Introduction to Climate Science – I: Fundamentals of Climate Science
Minor
Introduction to the science behind climate and climate change.
Introduction to Climate Science- II: Anthropocene and Climate Change
Minor
How is human activity changing the climate and driving it into irreversible states?
Field Practice in Climate Studies
Minor
This practicum will be conducted in the summer between the 5th and the 6th semester.
Climate ecology
Minor
Understand the ecosystem level impacts of climate change through case studies
Societal and Personal Aspects of the Climate Crisis
Minor
Study the relationship of the climate crisis to human development, economic systems and climate solutions
Internship: Climate studies
Internship
The internship will be shaped in discussion with a faculty instructor.
