As students in 2020, your generation is faced with an especially deep challenge of climate change and environmental degradation. This course is designed to be a co-learning education experience to foster our increased understanding of the problem and help us develop the skills to work together to address the serious challenge faced by global climate change. It’s not something that any one of us can solve alone, or any one state or country can solve. It is a challenge to which each of us working together on all levels (self, family, neighborhood, city, state, country, world) has something to contribute and can make a difference. This challenge also intersects with related issues of poverty, inequality, civil rights and the rights of all species.
This 6 week pilot course is designed to immerse you in systems thinking as applied to your own personal life journey, and your role in global and local climate and sustainability issues. In this course you will develop skill using Stella Software a powerful tool for modeling solutions and prepare a systems model presentation to share with your community. Through systems thinking and technology tools we will explore together the critical issues and potential solutions that touch each of us where ever we are and what ever our interest for future jobs or careers.
