Course description

Reporters familiar with how climate change affects our lives have a powerful lens to discover important stories at the local, national, and international level. Through a sequence of assignments, students in this course gain practical reporting experience both on climate change's effects (such as coastal flooding, hurricanes, drought, heat waves, cold snaps, and wildfire) and on societal responses (such as agricultural production, civil engineering, environmental justice, and governmental policy). Students also gain an appreciation for the complexity of climate science itself so as to be able to cover the science responsibly. Increasingly, media outlets are adding climate change beats. This course is designed to help students, science communication professionals, and working journalists deepen their understanding of climate change as well as improve their capacity to tell the important stories that climate change prompts. For complete and current details about this Harvard Extension course, see the description in the DCE Course Search.

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