POSC 384 - Climate Politics & Policy: The US, CA & the Bay

 

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:

1. Describe and evaluate the complexities, uncertainties, and injustices of a changing climate on socio-political, economic, and environmental systems
2. Discuss key policies at the local, regional, state, and national level including how they came into existence
3. Summarize and evaluate the position and experiences of key actors (government actor, non-profit, etc.) in the climate struggle, including obstacles and successes
4. Argue for and defend strategies for successfully addressing climate change

1. 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;
2. demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences; and
3. demonstrate an understanding of and ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.

1. identify the environmental, social, and economic dimensions of sustainability, either in general or in relation to a specific problem;
2. analyze interactions between human activities and natural systems;
3. describe key threats to environmental sustainability; and
4. explain how individual and societal choices affect prospects for sustainability at the local, regional, and/or global levels.