California universities have implemented new graduation requirements for students this fall semester. All students at the University of California, San Diego are now required to take a course on climate change in order to graduate.
The new “Jane Terrans Climate Change Education Requirements” aim to “ensure that undergraduate students in all majors on campus are equipped to understand and address climate change.” Regardless of a student's ultimate choice of major, whether it's sociology, linguistics, or even real estate development, all majors offered at UC San Diego require at least one semester of undergraduate study of climate ideology. I have to learn.
First of its kind
This new requirement will affect approximately 7,000 new students this year. The university boasts that the new requirement is “a first at a major public university and a first within the University of California System,” according to a university press release.
“UC San Diego has a long history of leadership in climate research and education, and the Jane Terranes climate change education requirements represent a new path forward,” said Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla. said. “Whether undergraduates major in STEM, humanities, arts, social sciences, or other fields, this requirement provides a deep understanding of climate change and how they can contribute to meaningful solutions. You will learn it.”
The list of new classes includes “Geoarchaeology in Theory and Practice,” “Literature and the Environment,” and “Gender and Climate Justice.” Interestingly, none of the courses cover how to spot scientific fraud.
Roots of DEI
DEI requirements for schools influenced new climate change assumptions. The DEI requirement states that all students must attend classes that aim to “critically engage students in topics related to race, power, and anti-racism efforts that meaningfully contest systemic racism.” You are required to take and pass at least one of the following:
“We have taken the best lessons from the DEI requirements to ensure that the requirements do not add additional time to students' degrees,” said Muir College President Wayne Yang. “Climate requirements encourage and incentivize faculty to incorporate climate change education into upper-division courses, so that the curriculum focuses on what students can actually do about climate change from their own disciplines. ” Importantly, we treat climate change as an interdisciplinary issue. ”
“Hypothetically, engineering students would want to take a course in their major that looks at how to build sustainable widgets, while political science students would want a course in their major that explores policy implications related to sustainability.” “I think it's possible,” Sara said. Jill, an oceanographer who helped develop the new requirements; “Some students may wish to take courses outside of their major in order to gain a broader view of the world.”
already bearing fruit
Some students are already supporting climate change propaganda.
“It's really opened my eyes to what's going on, especially with Hurricane Milton, and why it's so devastating,” communication major Marcello Ametrano told the Guardian. “The ocean is saving us from much worse situations because it absorbs a lot of carbon dioxide. So the ocean is directly connected to climate change and basically what's happening in Florida right now. Therefore, understanding the ocean is very important.”
Supporters of the new requirement hope to roll it out across the University of California system.
