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March 31, 2014

College Classes Use Arts to Brace for Climate Change

McIntyre Amy

Click to read Richard Pérez-Peña’s article in the New York Times, “College Classes Use Arts to Brace for Climate Change” featuring professor Stephanie LeManager’s “The Cultures of Climate Change” class at the University of Oregon. Original article reprinted below.

EUGENE, Ore. — University courses on global warming have become common, and Prof. Stephanie LeMenager’s new class here at the University of Oregon has all the expected, alarming elements: rising oceans, displaced populations, political conflict, endangered animals.

The goal of this class, however, is not to ...