ECS355

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Global Warming

ECS A&S - Arts and Sciences

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