WRIT 1450 - FWS: Communicating Big Ideas: Climate Change Rhetoric

Fall, Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

First-Year Writing Seminar.

S. Sorrell.

Record heat and historic floods, epic droughts and raging wildfires. These are just a few examples of how the world is changing due to anthropogenic (or human-induced) climate change. In this class we will read and write about issues of environmental justice from different genres and disciplinary perspectives. Some of the questions we will address include: how scientists talk to policy makers, how young people connect to the natural world and each other, how indigenous people make use of traditional knowledge to keep the land in balance, and how people across the globe speak out for climate justice.