Climate Change across the Curriculum [Hardcover]

Climate Change across the Curriculum examines ways of thinking and conveying information about climate change across university curricula and within academic disciplines. The contributors provide methods, strategies, rationales, and theoretical justifications for teaching climate issues at the university level. The content of this book aims to introduce climate change to classes outside of the sciences, as it will take a wide range of disciplines, broader institutional thinking, and experimentation to fully engage university resources and knowledge toward the mitigation of fossil fuel consumption and adaptation to the negative consequences of climate change. Climate Change across the Curriculum encourages professors to engage salient aspects of their academic disciplines to the study of climate issues in the classroom, as well as sample theories, practices, and resources from a wide range of academic disciplines outside of their own areas of specialization. The contributors ask: what role will higher education play in addressing environmental challenges and producing students who become professionals who accomplish work that solves these problems?Eric J. Fretz is associate professor of peace and justice studies at Regis University.Here is a book, rich in examples and compellingly written, that shows exactly why and how college and universities can tear down their old-fashioned silos to address the great challenge of our time. John Calderazzo, Colorado State University

Part I: Climate Change Across the Curriculum

Chapter 1, Writing Across the Curriculum: Lessons and Strategies, Douglass Hesse
Chapter 2, Citizen Science and Climate Change, Harry Boyte
Chapter 3, Diversity Across the Curriculum: Critical Race and Gender Theory, Geoffrey Batemanis

Part II: Teaching Climate Change within Academic Disciplines

Chapter 4, Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and the Climate Crisis, Andrew J. Auge
Chapter 5, Qualitative Reasoning and Climate Chanlƒƒ