Make a poster regarding the causes and effects of climate change. Increased temperatures, changes in precipitation and climate variability would alter the geographic ranges and seasonality of diseases spread by organisms like mosquitoes. Limited to 12. In 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that: It is extremely likely (>95 % certainty) that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.. Acad Year 2023-2024: G (Fall)2-0-7 units. Surveys the effects of decolonization in the mid-twentieth century on the imagination of computational technologies in places such as South America, Africa, and Asia. Due to increasing temperature, large reserves of organic matter frozen in subarctic permafrost will thaw and decay, releasing additional CO. Climate change affects ocean habitats by lowering oxygen, decreasing phytoplankton (little plants that serve as the base of marine food chains) and killing coral reefs. 0000035287 00000 n climate change, periodic modification of Earth's climate brought about as a result of changes in the atmosphere as well as interactions between the atmosphere and various other geologic, chemical, biological, and geographic factors within the Earth system. Climate change, on the other hand, occurs because the amount of energy in the entire climate system is changed which affects each and every component in the system. Technological advances, particularly the discovery and use of fossil fuels, have contributed to climate change - but they have also allowed humanity to become aware of our impact on the planet and . Acad Year 2023-2024: U (Spring)3-0-9 units. Explores how and why physical education was integrated into the US educational system while remaining separate from academic subjects and how and why 21st-century institutions might combine the two. HASS-H. Explores the changing roles of physics and physicists during the 20th century. Acad Year 2023-2024: Not offeredUnits arrangedCan be repeated for credit. 0000004516 00000 n All of this is making life on Earth much more difficult. Same subject as 11.461[J]Prereq: None G (Fall) 0000030795 00000 n Subject to departmental approval. Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered The objective of the program is to develop advanced competence in the study of science and technology from a historical and social scientific perspective. Completion of work of the senior major thesis under the supervision of a faculty tutor. Climate change is altering temperature, precipitation, and sea levels, and will adversely impact human and natural systems, including water resources, human settlements and health, ecosystems, and biodiversity. Explores the relationship of science and technology to ideas about human rights over time, including how science and technology have been mobilized historically in the defense of human rights and to assist in the pursuit of truth and justice after atrocity. Emphasizes intensive reading of primary sources, which represent past attempts to count, calculate, measure, and model many dimensions of human social life (population, wealth, health, happiness, intelligence, crime, deviance, race). 0000008473 00000 n Scholars of science and technology studies have long been interested in the work of scientists, the circulation of scientiic knowledge and the relation-ship between science and politics6-11. Download:presentation (ppt) | video (high res.) Readings explore the connection between material culture, identity, and personal development. Subject meets with STS.043Prereq: Permission of instructor Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered They may also take subjects offered by other MIT departments and through cross-registration with Harvard. 0000017121 00000 n 0000025747 00000 n 0000017890 00000 n Explores what is truly new about "new media" and reviews lessons from history for present-day activists based on patterns of past failure and success. Limited to 20; preference to students who have taken STS.034. Given China's entrance into the new stage of economic development, an updated study on the largest CO2 emitter's domestic emission distribution is needed for effective and coordinated global CO2 mitigation planning. Climate change is a sign that humans have become a force with planet-altering power. Includes a field trip. 0000004784 00000 n Ahead of the UN Climate Summit COP26 in Glasgow last year, the Royal Society sought wide-ranging input from the global scientific community to produce the Climate change: science and solutions briefings. 0000001054 00000 n Provides instruction in the methods historians use to document the past, as well as methods from related fields. gas. 0000009853 00000 n "Climate Change: Science and Impacts Factsheet." 0000006973 00000 n Prereq: Permission of instructor G (Fall, Spring)Units arrangedCan be repeated for credit. Includes guest lecturers, on-campus field trips, and interactive exercises. See description under subject 11.244[J]. Same subject as 21H.205[J] It has a guide index to help you focus your presentation. Adapted from image by W. Elder, National Park Service. Examines how commodities connect distant places through a chain of relationships, and link people, e.g., enslaved African producers with middle-class American consumers, and Asian factory workers with Europeans taking a holiday on the beach. Changing temperature patterns. 0000006766 00000 n Uses a problem-solving, multi-disciplinary, and multicultural approach that takes energy beyond the complex circuits, grids, and kilojoules to the realm of everyday life, with ordinary people as practitioners and producers of energy knowledge, infrastructures, and technologies. Intensive reading and analysis of key works in the history and historiography of science. 'There is just no excuse': Why do methane emissions remain 'stubbornly high'? Climate change is also affected by the Earths responses to forcings, known as climate feedbacks. Limited to 25. Student works closely with STS faculty tutor. Undergraduate research opportunities in the STS Program. Discusses recent scientific and educational research that finds that the human body in motion is a medium for learning. Topics include industrialization of production and consumption, development of engineering professions, the emergence of management and its role in shaping technological forms, the technological construction of gender roles, and the relationship between humans and machines. Acad Year 2023-2024: G (Spring)3-0-9 units. Enrollment limited. HASS-S. See description under subject 21A.505[J]. HASS-H. Climate change causes sea levels to rise in two ways. Environmental Research Letters, 9(2), 1-9. Subject meets with STS.444Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered 0000005988 00000 n 0000007892 00000 n In May 2000, at the InterAcademy Panel (IAP) meeting in Tokyo, 63 academies of science from all parts of the world issued a statement on sustainability in which they noted that "global trends in climate change are growing concerns" and pledged themselves to work for sustainabilitymeeting current human needs while preserving the environment and natural resources needed by future . Prereq: None U (Spring)3-0-9 units. Subject meets with STS.443Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered 3. determine the interrelatedness of society, environment and health. Cracking the code: The sequencing of genetic material is a powerful conservation tool . Oil. USGCRP (2018) Fourth National Climate Assessment. Examines the past, present and future of work from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing from the humanities, social sciences, and cognitive science and engineering. %PDF-1.4 % They're rich and . Explores these issues with particular attention to the development of the modern biotechnology industry in the Greater Boston area. Global average temperatures in 2021 were 0.84C (1.51F) higher than in the 20th century average. Begin with an introduction about what climate change is, its causes and consequences. Weekly in-lecture labs demonstrate how exercise can inform academic instruction and invite students to create future curricula. HASS-H. A survey of America's transition from a rural, agrarian, and artisan society to one of the world's leading industrial powers. Prereq: One CI-H/CI-HW subject and permission of instructor Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered Same subject as 11.652[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered 0000011821 00000 n hb```e`` "03 ?Pa/T(8S 6G b -`u>R}*1. The warming of the atmosphere affects weather patterns, causing more frequent and severe storms and droughts across many global regions. Considers how, in response to the naming of the Anthropocene and anxieties over ecological crises, researchers in various fields have turned to plants as central players. Multiple lines of evidence show changes in our weather, oceans, ecosystems, and more. Researchers from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology have been awarded a three-year, $2 million grant from the U.S . Designed to create reflective practitioners who are able to think critically about how collecting, aggregating, and analyzing data are social processes and processes that affect people. Examples include the eugenics movement, the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, the debate surrounding racial inheritance, and IQ testing. This design contains lots of . In the theme of Climate Change and Sustainability, we included the need for prioritising investment in socio-political-economic aspects of climate change; sustainability and reduction of environmental effects in agriculture and mineral commodities extraction; protection and recovery of Brazilian biomes and oceans; blue economy; biodiversity; an energy transition; adaptation of the agricultural . 0000028614 00000 n Prereq: Permission of advisor G (Fall, IAP, Spring, Summer)0-1-0 units. HASS-S. It leads to one degree, either a Bachelor of Science in Humanities and Science or a Bachelor of Science in Humanities and Engineering. 0000011217 00000 n Takes a historically inflected approach to examine the social relations of science in the modern United States. 0000004845 00000 n 0000159700 00000 n The Latest Science on Energy Based Solutions for Climate Change Professor William Moomaw Tufts University Earth Day 2004. No country today is immune from the impacts of climate change. Subject meets with STS.487Prereq: Permission of instructor U (Fall)3-0-9 units. Acad Year 2023-2024: G (Fall)3-0-9 units. HASS-S. Introduces students to the core and canonical literature in this area while also providing the opportunity to read and discuss more recent works from multiple disciplines. Adapted from USGCRP (2009) Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States. Enrollment limited. The STS requirement for either degree is 9 subjects as follows: Consult the 21E and 21S degree charts for details on the requirements for these joint degrees. Team-taught subject that centers Global South cosmologies and epistemologies marginalized by colonization, slavery, and racism across the world. Examines science and (in turn) religion, warfare, health, education, the environment, and human rights to explore how an international leader in science is also home to some of the developed world's most persistent forms of "science denialism." If GHG emissions were completely eliminated today, climate change impacts would still continue for centuries. 0000005644 00000 n Many of these innovations were pioneered for space travel and planetary exploration before anyone repurposed them for use on Earth. Climate Change. The surface then re-emits energy as infrared radiation, a portion of which escapes into space. 0000002572 00000 n Acad Year 2023-2024: Not offered3-0-9 units. Acad Year 2023-2024: G (Spring)3-0-9 units. The use of biography in different historical periods to illuminate aspects of the development of science. The goal of the program is to set up a forum to explore the relationship between what scientists and engineers do and the constraints, needs, and responses of society. Acad Year 2023-2024: Not offered3-0-9 units. PowerPoint Presentation (1.6 MB) Return to top. National Research Council (2011) Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts over Decades to Millennia. 80 0 obj <> endobj xref 0000009520 00000 n The Royal Society, together with the world's leading scientific academies, have issued a statement on the need to accelerate action on . Global Climate Change Impacts in the. Prereq: Permission of instructor Acad Year 2022-2023: G (Spring) You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in our emails. Also examines the changing institutions in which various scientific fields were conducted during the postwar decades, investigating possible epistemic effects on forms of knowledge. 0000006184 00000 n Same subject as 11.151[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: U (Spring) 2021. 0000007023 00000 n CSS05-19. It also includes maps to highlight . The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The workshop was organized by the Social Science Coordinating Committee (SSCC) of the U.S. 0000009793 00000 n HASS-H. Exposes students to multidisciplinary studies in Science, Technology, and Society (STS), using four case studies to illustrate a broad range of approaches to basic principles of STS studies. Multiple lines of evidence show changes in our weather, oceans, ecosystems, and more. Within each of these categories, students can choose both introductory and more advanced subjects. Sheet1. Regents of the University of Michigan, Produced by Achieving the Triple Win of CSA. 0000006827 00000 n 0000035423 00000 n 0000008051 00000 n Same subject as 17.395[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered 0000003696 00000 n The world is now warming faster than at any point in recorded history . U.S. average annual precipitation has increased by 4% since 1901, but the intensity and frequency of extreme precipitation events has increased even more, a trend that is expected to continue. Increased concentrations of GHGs from anthropogenic sources have increased the absorption of infrared radiation, enhancing the natural greenhouse effect. Current news and data streams about global warming and climate change from NASA. HASS-S. See description under subject 22.04[J]. Topics include origins of mechanized production, the factory system, steam propulsion, electrification, mass communications, mass production and automation. Addressing specific examples from across the globe, students also explore different approaches to build more livable environments that promote social justice. Opens up trans-hemispheric conversations between constituencies that seldom talk to each other, each bringing its ways of seeing, thinking, knowing, and doing to the matrix to mutually inform one another. Acad Year 2023-2024: U (Fall)2-0-7 units. Discusses literature in history, anthropology, law, and related fields to address how science and technology have historically shaped understandings of human rights and the ways that human rights frameworks have shaped the creation and use of scientific and technological capabilities. Same subject as 11.155[J], IDS.057[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: U (Spring) Intensive reading and analysis of major works in historical and social studies of science and technology. Changes in the Earths orbit, the energy received from the Sun and the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere can all cause climate change. Increases in the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reduce the amount of energy the Earths surface radiates to space, thus warming the planet.4. Acad Year 2023-2024: G (Spring)3-0-9 units. Preference to HASTS students; open to others with permission of instructor. Seeks to explore meanings of science and technology from traditions, experiences, and literatures of these regions; to understand encounters and outcomes of endogenous and inbound ideas, artifacts, and practice; and to engage European and North American science, technology, and society (STS) in dialogue with these literatures. Surveys youth political participation in the US since the early 1800s. Uses case studies to take a broad-ranging look at seven major engineering achievements in world history. With an increase in average global temperatures of 2. Interdisciplinary problem-solving at the intersection of humanities, science, engineering, and business. 0000005793 00000 n Use of environmental conflict to draw attention to competing understandings and uses of "nature" as well as the local, national and transnational power relationships in which environmental interactions are embedded. 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