Cognitive Science 0142 - Innovations for Change

Worried about climate change and how we will live sustainably in the future? Join us to brainstorm and assess solutions together. This will be a course for students interested in learning how to evaluate potential solutions to current local and global environmental and social problems. The course will be co-taught by faculty across the curriculum at Hampshire and will include both large lectures and breakout working groups. The course will be divided into modules focused on specific problems and potential solutions, such as how the arts can help educate and engage the public in making positive changes for sustainable living; whether a cap-and-trade system can reduce carbon emissions efficiently and equitably; why humans are so resistant to changing our habits; or how we might ameliorate losses to biodiversity due to climate change. In addition to engagement in readings, lectures, discussion and activities, small teams of students will be expected to explore a problem in greater depth.

Mind, Brain, and Information Arts, Design, and Media Physical and Biological Sciences Independent Work This class meets Tuesdays & Thursdays in WLH at 10:30-11:50. Each student will be assigned to a required discussion section which will meet Fridays at 10:30-11:30, classroom to be determined.