Labor, Climate Change, and the Just Transition ((4 Credits))

Catalog description

This course examines climate change, the science behind it, and both the challenges and opportunities it poses to working people, especially workers in the energy sector and building trades. Students will learn to demonstrate scientific reasoning related to climate change, apply scientific knowledge to the complex social and economic facets of climate change as it affects working people, and analyze the concept of a “just transition” and the debates around it. This course fulfills students’ Natural Science general education requirement.