COR 456 SO YOU THINK YOU CAN SAVE THE PLANET?
In this writing-intensive, interdisciplinary capstone course we grapple with some of the biggest issues ever to face humanity, such as the benefits and costs of industrialization and economic growth, how free markets create both solutions and dilemmas, and what to do about large-scale environmental problems such as species extinctions and climate change. Understanding and navigating these complicated issues requires students to develop basic competence in diverse disciplines including economics, environmental science, history, and numerical literacy. No discipline will be privileged, and all commonly held viewpoints will be subjected to rigorous criticism using empirical evidence. We will consider the tradeoffs that inevitably occur at the interface of the economy, the environment, and society, and we will examine how human societies might thrive in the future.
Course Types
Core Interdisciplinary Seminar
Notes
This course is writing intensive. Open to students in the third or fourth year of study.