EESC1720 · Complex Problems and Enduring Questions
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences
| Term | Evaluations | Course rating | Instructor rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2023 | 11 | 3.7 | 3.9 |
| Fall 2021 | 15 | 3.7 | 3.8 |
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This is a Complex Problem course and is open to FRESHMEN only. You must take both EESC1720 and ENGL1733. The realities of a changing climate, including intensified extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and strengthening heat waves and droughts, are already being felt by frontline communities around the world. This course focuses both on hearing stories about climate change as told by climate writers, scientists, and members of frontline communities, and telling these stories ourselves. We will examine storytelling as it works across mediums and genres from literature to scientific data visualizations, and consider what it means to write an essay, produce a graph, create a podcast, or make a film. Students in the course will read, watch, and analyze examples of climate storytelling, broadly defined, and produce their own personal essays, infographics, podcasts, and/or films. Some questions we will foreground throughout the semester are: How do we communicate the science and the human impacts of the climate crisis? Whose ways of knowing and lived experiences do we privilege? How can the stories we tell move society towards just climate solutions?
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Very nice, understanding, and caring. Class isn't too hard, and you don't really need to do the readings. Attend review sessions before the quizzes (which are online and open-note), and you'll be well-prepared. The lab section for this class is basically a free grade booster.