The Berkeley Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Berkeley Seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester.

The pace of current climate change is orders of magnitude faster than any changes experienced in the Earth's past. This is reconfiguring biological diversity in ways that we are only beginning to recognize. Organisms are shifting their distributions in time and space, and experiencing population fluctuations and extinctions. In this seminar we will explore the biological impacts of climate change on plants, animals (including humans), communities, and ecosystems. This seminar is for anyone who cares about the planet and wants to understand climate change research and become a more effective advocate for understanding climate change. You must be prepared to fully engage with the course, contribute actively to discussions, and do all the readings.

Requisites

• Students with 1-2 Terms in Attendance

Repeat Rules

Requirements class fulfills