The Climate and Society Minor provides insights into the complex relationship and interactions between climate and society – particularly how climate change affects society and how human actions influence physical Earth changes. Students can take courses on long-term environmental and global climate change, environmental racism and justice, water as a resource, and the geography of disasters.  

 Students learn how to analyze and evaluate physical environments and human systems, collect, organize, and interpret data, use geospatial technologies and statistics, and communicate their findings. The skills students build in this minor will translate across fields in the academic, business, government and non-profit sectors. This minor may benefit students in many primary areas of study such as history, environmental studies, political science, anthropology, public health and more.