GPS: Climate Present, Climate Futures

Catalog description

Cat. IThe Great Problems Seminars (GPS) are a two course sequence designed to engage WorcesterPolytechnic Institute's first-year students with current events, societal problems,and human needs. Each seminar starts with an important problem andintroduces some of the key disciplinary tools that could be used to attack theproblem. The focus for most of the second course will be a researchproject related to the GPS theme. Students will present their project work in aposter session at the end of the second term. Each seminar is developed and presentedby an interdisciplinary pair of faculty. To participate, students must enroll inthe two course sequence. Academic credit for the GPS will depend on the themeand the faculty who develop the seminar.