Climate Change As Subject

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Climate Change as Subject will examine the ways in which that art can be used to document and process the effects of climate change upon the world. Students will be encouraged to develop projects that focus on the environment and the ways in which that what they create works of art can address climate change. Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, which will serve as the course text and aid on the quest to understand the political, environmental and cultural impacts of climate change across the globe. The most up-to-date research on climate change, as well as guest speakers, art slide lectures, and films will be used in order to examine how modern life is rapidly changing the planet and hopefully lead students to new modes of green living, consciousness, and art production.