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Aug 21, 2024
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POSC 356 - Climate Change Politics & Policy: Global Governance Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-D ; Sustainability Climate change politics and policy focusing on international action. Covers history, climate impacts around the world, United Nations, international summits, individual country positions, diplomacy, global non-profits, climate migration, climate justice. Follow climate summit negotiations in real time.
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area D1-3 requirements. Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 with grade C- (CR) or better. Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground. Grading: A-F grading only. Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-D - Upper Division Social Sciences ; Overlay - Sustainability Course Typically Offered: Fall Alternate Years
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Summarize the basics of climate science and the socio-political, economic, and environmental impacts of a changing climate
- Describe and evaluate the complexities, uncertainties, and injustices of global climate disruption
- Discuss what the international community is doing to address climate change, namely via the UNFCCC/COP process
- Summarize and evaluate the position and experiences of a key actor (nation, NGO, etc.) in the climate regime
- Summarize and evaluate events and outcomes of COP26
- Argue for and defend recommendations for the future of the UNFCCC process
UD-D. Upper-division Social Sciences Learning Outcomes
- analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods;
- demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences; and
- demonstrate an understanding of and ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.
Sustainability Overlay Learning Outcomes
- identify the environmental, social, and economic dimensions of sustainability, either in general or in relation to a specific problem;
- analyze interactions between human activities and natural systems;
- describe key threats to environmental sustainability; and
- explain how individual and societal choices affect prospects for sustainability at the local, regional, and/or global levels.
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