Teaching climate change to four hundred freshmen GE students as a new Assistant Professor

Abstract:

I discuss some lessons learned whilst porting an established mature climate change course to an unusually large classroom at University of California, Irvine while starting up as junior faculty. I will share some thoughts on the logistics of dealing with climate change material at this scale while starting up as new faculty, things that worked well, things that didn’t, what the students thought, rapping about climate science, and what I will change next time around.