ECS355
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Global Warming
Subject
ECS
Catalog Number
355
Title
Global Warming
Course Description
Broad, interdisciplinary course on the observations, causes, and consequences of climate change. Course will cover modern and paleoclimate observations, human and natural drivers, and links between drivers and responses. Building on this physical science base, course will then analyze how socioeconomic choices affect future climate as well as the factors influencing those choices, including risk analyses, geoengineering proposals, climate metrics and the media.
Grading Basis
Graded
Course Typically Offered
Fall and/or Spring
Consent (Permission Number)
No Special Consent Required
Min Units
1
Max Units
1
Lecture
General Education Curriculum Codes
STS - (STS) Science, Technology, and Society, NS - (NS) Natural Sciences