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In Spring 2025, Duke Kunshan University will offer its 2 credit university-wide course DKU102 Let’s Talk About Climate Change. The course is led by three DKU professors, James Miller, Chuanhui Gu and Anastasia Tsigkou, and features an additional fourteen faculty who will contribute their expertise over the semester.

DKU102 is a key element of the joint DKU-Duke commitment to place climate change at the forefront of the two universities’ missions. It is not an environmental science course. The course shows, in a completely interdisciplinary way, how climate change affects all academic disciplines, and how all DKU students, no matter their academic background or major, can play a part in effecting positive change regarding climate change issues, starting with talking about it. Continue reading “Introducing DKU102 Climate Change Faculty for Spring 2025”

DKU102 Let’s Talk About Climate Change is a two credit university-wide course designed for all undergraduates at Duke Kunshan University. It takes place over 13 weeks of the Spring semester.

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Please note that this course is exempt from the normal overload policy, so that registering for this course will not cause you to overload.

In addition to scientific issues such as energy, biology and ecology, the course will consider a whole range of social and personal issues, such as climate justice, global governance, and personal ethics. The goal is to show how climate change intersects with the full range of academic disciplines at DKU, and to prepare all students, no matter their major, for a future that is being transformed by climate change.

Modeled on the Duke course of the same name, DKU102 meets every Tuesday from 6:30-8:00pm  in the Spring semester. Students learn from the professors in the first half, then engage in discussions and activities in the second half.

The course has no graded assignments, and students earn two credits by participating in the weekly classes. Continue reading “About DKU102”