Courses in Environmental Studies about the Arctic currently listed on the Macalester website:
ENVI 259 - Indigenous People’s of the Arctic
The Arctic represents one of the most extreme environments to which humans have adapted. These adaptations include both biological and cultural changes. . . It also explores the consequences of rapid global climate change . . .
ENVI 362 - Arctic Ecology
The Arctic is the Earth’s most rapidly warming region. It is also home to massive carbon reservoirs and diverse biological adaptations to extreme elements, as well as home to Indigenous populations, and the site of oil extraction and vanishing sea ice. We will examine how climate change is impacting the biodiversity, ecophysiology, and biogeochemistry of this crucial biome and, as a result, the rest of the world. As an upper level course, Arctic Ecology aims to challenge students to improve their science communication skills through varied written, spoken, and visual presentations. Students will also be challenged to synthesize content acrosssystems and create novel hypotheses about current and future impacts of change at a species, community, ecosystem, and landscape scale.