Climate Change Curriculum

Humanities disciplines including literature, the arts, philosophy, history and religious studies are essential for living authentic lives in the Anthropocene.  From climate activist Bill McKibben:

T]he preoccupations of our society are starting quickly to shift—from endless expansion to strategies for survival. And in turn that should reshape the list of things we think it’s important to learn. Scientists and engineers have much work yet to do, and so do economists and business executives: every percentage increase in the efficiency of a solar panel, every percentage drop in the price of a wind turbine, betters our chances at survival. 

But suddenly we need everyone else too. Psychologists to understand why we’re slow to react, and political scientists to trace the power of the fossil fuel industry through our societies; theologians and historians to mine our traditions for the nuggets that let us deal with new crises; artists to offer us the images that can spur action. Look at it this way: if we are suddenly living, as the scientists insist, in the Anthropocene, then the humanities by definition are central to the task at hand.

        -- Bill McKibben, in Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities, p. 269

Find below curriculum resources for teaching climate change in Humanities disciplines.  See also

• Teaching Climate Change in the Community College (faculty guide)
• Humanities and climate change (student guide, last updated 2020)