PSYC 185. Psychology of Climate Crisis (4 units)
Link to catalog page: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/courses/PSYC.html#psyc185
Description
This course provides tools for the student to think about the escalating climate crisis. Urgent action is needed at a large, societal scale to prevent the worst consequences of anthropogenic global heating. Better understanding the prospects for such action can come from human psychology. How do people arrive at their beliefs? What is the basis of denial and delay? How does belief flow to action? What kinds of actions can people take? Prerequisites: upper-division standing.
Prerequisite courses
PSYC 185 has no prerequisite courses.
Successor courses
No courses have PSYC 185 as a prerequisite.