Natural Sciences 191CNS68 - FYS-Global crisis:Coronavirus

Questions around the coronavirus pandemic, climate emergency and green economy, have all animated discussions around sustainability, inequality and security. Narratives about growing food and energy scarcity and natural limits, together with global security and sustainability concerns around environmental and health protection thresholds and financial volatility, are creating new challenges on science and policy as well as proposed responses to crises. In this course, we will explore these challenges and contradictions through the discussion of current complex global processes of change as they unfold in and transform social and environmental relationships across the world, including nature capitalization, intensifying local level scarcities, new epidemic outbreaks, inequalities, dispossessions from resources and livelihoods, and infringements of basic rights.

Open to Natural Sciences Freshman with a declared major or on the Natural Sciences Exploratory Track. Freshmen Only