Natural Sciences 191CNS29 - FYS- Earth and Beyond

How often do you reflect on what?s beneath your feet? Not just floors or asphalt, but the thin crust of the earth that we stand on: soils. We need soils to survive, but global challenges like climate change threaten how soils sustain us and the planet. How do we tell this story of soil crisis? What can we learn from imagining future soils? In this course, we?ll explore soils through storytelling, making sense of the world and sharing our understanding with others. We?ll dissect soil storytelling from scientific journals to science fiction, imagining possible futures for a planet in crisis.

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