New course provides students with tools to understand and respond to climate crisis

November 19, 2024 by Kiran Champatsingh

This new course launching in January 2025, aims to give undergraduate students a clear-eyed understanding of the seriousness and urgency of the climate crisis and the tools to deal with that understanding, psychologically, politically, and sociologically. Professor Steve Easterbrook, director of the School of the Environment, developed the course in response to an initiative at the University of Barcelona to create a mandatory course on the climate crisis.

“Increasingly, our students are demanding that Universities respond to declarations of a climate emergency (e.g. by the Federal Government and the City of Toronto) by re-thinking how our programs are preparing them with the resilience and skills needed in a world that will be radically re-shaped by climate change in the coming decades,” said Easterbrook.

The course is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary introduction to the climate crisis open to any undergraduate student at the University of Toronto. Using a mixture of lectures, hands-on activities, group projects, online discussion, and guest speakers, the course examines the climate crisis from scientific, social, economic, political, and cultural perspectives, from the physical science basis through to the choices we now face to stabilize the climate system.

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