CCSMINU - Climate Change and Society
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Program Type
Undergraduate Minor
College
College of Agriculture, Life & Environmental Sciences
Career
Undergraduate
Program Description
People, animals, plants, and all living organisms are being impacted by long-term changes in temperatures and ecosystems around the world. This global change is an increasingly dominant fact of life for all human and natural systems, and we can see the impacts all around us. In many parts of the world, governments and organizations have already been forced to adapt to ensure basic services that are essential for human civilization--including water, food, clean air, livable climate, renewable resources, and natural areas¿will continue to be available for their communities.
Climate change is also creating unprecedented new opportunities for innovation and economic growth; the jobs of the future are already aligning with solving the tremendous reorganization of the global economy driven by this global change. College students today will live their entire personal and professional lives in a world that is being shaped by these rapidly-changing forces; there is no part of our world that will not be touched by global change.
The Minor in Climate Change and Society is designed to supplement the career interests of students in any field who want to understand how global change will affect their professional and personal lives and adapt to new emerging career opportunities.
Climate change is also creating unprecedented new opportunities for innovation and economic growth; the jobs of the future are already aligning with solving the tremendous reorganization of the global economy driven by this global change. College students today will live their entire personal and professional lives in a world that is being shaped by these rapidly-changing forces; there is no part of our world that will not be touched by global change.
The Minor in Climate Change and Society is designed to supplement the career interests of students in any field who want to understand how global change will affect their professional and personal lives and adapt to new emerging career opportunities.
Learning Outcomes
- Define, differentiate, and explain the nature of climate change and the importance of modern sustainable best practices across human societies
- Associate, examine, and compare how to infer meaning and inspire personal and collective action through written, visual, and verbal communication to a variety of audiences
- Summarize, implement, and appraise sustainable thinking as it relates to addressing current and future real world climate change challenges and crises
- Design, practice, and manage, a personal and professional toolbox of sustainability knowledge, skills, and abilities useful for successful professional careers and engaged citizenship
- Associate, examine, and compare how to infer meaning and inspire personal and collective action through written, visual, and verbal communication to a variety of audiences
- Summarize, implement, and appraise sustainable thinking as it relates to addressing current and future real world climate change challenges and crises
- Design, practice, and manage, a personal and professional toolbox of sustainability knowledge, skills, and abilities useful for successful professional careers and engaged citizenship