The Syllabus Bank fosters and improves university-level courses on climate change in the social sciences.
Despite student demand on the world's most important global problem, at many universities such courses are scarce. For instructors, developing a new syllabus from scratch can be a barrier to teaching the course. We offer existing syllabi, for free, to anyone in the world. Different courses have different features, such as documentary films or class simulations. We are extremely grateful to the instructors who have volunteered their syllabi for this purpose. More syllabi are welcome.
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Teaching Tool: Theories of Change in Climate Politics
Our working paper aims to help instructors create new climate politics syllabi using the Decarbonization Theories of Change Framework below as its foundation.
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Additional Resources
Possibly (podcast)
Sick and tired of environmental gloom and doom? Want to know what you can do? Listen to Possibly – where we take on huge problems, like the future of our planet, and break them down into small questions with unexpected answers.
Shift Key (podcast)
From Heatmap news.
Climate law syllabi (free to all)
Syllabus listing at Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) (behind a paywall)
Climate Action Simulation
En-ROADS is an interactive, role-playing game.
Sky Shares
SkyShares allows you to visualise the financial flows and economic costs of a climate agreement. Hosted by the Center for Global Development.