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Climate Change Studies Minor

Union College · Schenectady, NY

A checklist is the list of requirements to complete this program and receive the award, as the college publishes it in its catalog. It is the same for everyone. It does not say what you have completed; that comes from applying your own record.

Program
Award
Minor
Catalog edition
Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Checklist type
degree-program
Description
The minor starts with an introductory course (GEO 109 or GEO 114), but students who already fulfilled an introductory geoscience course may substitute the upper-level GEO 209 or GEO 215 in lieu of the introductory course. The minor then focuses on four main categories: ways of knowing , impacts and solutions , climate and society , and climate policy . Ways of knowing includes courses covering the physical and chemical records used to measure past and present climate change. Impacts and solutions courses cover ecological and human built systems that are impacted by climate change. Climate and society includes themes of climate and environmental change driving human history and economics. Finally, climate policy contains courses that examine different dimensions of climate change (and policies to address it such as clean energy transitions) as political and policy problems, in which students learn about how political institutions or interests guide or constrain climate outcomes. A sixth course is chosen from among the four categories depending on your interests and in consultation with your advisor.
Identifiers
IPEDS UNITID
196866
CourseShelf checklist
CK_196866_f155cd0c
CollegeTransfer.Net
Institution Transfer Profile
Source
CourseShelf publish 61

Requirements to complete

Every course or condition the catalog lists, in the catalog's order.

Introduction to Climate Studies (Take 1)

4 items
  1. 1.0
  2. 1.0
  3. 1

Ways of Knowing (Take 1)

12 items
  1. 1
  2. 1.0
  3. 1.0
  4. 1.0
  5. 1
  6. 1.0
  7. 1.0
  8. 1.0
  9. 1
  10. 1.0
  11. 1.0
  12. 1.0

Impacts and Solutions (Take 1)

12 items
  1. 1.0
  2. 1.0
  3. 1
  4. 1
  5. 1
  6. 1
  7. 1.0
  8. 1.0
  9. 1.0
  10. 1
  11. 1.0
  12. 1.0

Climate and Society (Take 1)

7 items
  1. 1.0
  2. 1.0
  3. 1.0
  4. 1.0
  5. 1.0
  6. 1.0
  7. 1.0

Climate Policy (Take 1)

6 items
  1. 1
  2. 1
  3. 1
  4. 1
  5. 1
  6. One additional course from one of the four categories above chosen in consultation with your Climate Change Studies advisor.
    Not resolved to a course
Source. Union College, catalog Academic Catalog 2026-2027 — https://catalog.union.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=29&poid=7310. Captured page pages/0249.html.gz. Assembled from the institution's published catalog as captured; every record names its captured page and source URL. Assembled, not asserted.