As recent events have demonstrated, if we are not already climate disaster survivors we soon will be. Yet too often the news media reduces the survivors of those disasters to victims or statistics rather than knowledge bearers from the future. This course, and the Climate Disaster Project it supports, is a remedy to that ailment. Working as part of an international team at post-secondary institutions across Canada, students will interview local survivors of those disasters, gathering their oral histories. Students will create “as told to" profiles that may be published or broadcast by the Climate Disaster Project's news media partners. These profiles will draw attention to the universality and intersectional nature of climate change. These profiles will also provide a basis for further investigative coverage into the human impacts of climate change, as well as the role governments and corporations have played in creating those disasters. Prerequisites: 45 credits
As recent events have demonstrated, if we are not already climate disaster survivors we soon will be. Yet too often the news media reduces the survivors of those disasters to victims or statistics rather than knowledge bearers from the future. This course, and the Climate Disaster Project it supports, is a remedy to that ailment. Working as part of an international team at post-secondary institutions across Canada, students will interview local survivors of those disasters, gathering their oral histories. Students will create “as told to" profiles that may be published or broadcast by the Climate Disaster Project's news media partners. These profiles will draw attention to the universality and intersectional nature of climate change. These profiles will also provide a basis for further investigative coverage into the human impacts of climate change, as well as the role governments and corporations have played in creating those disasters. Prerequisites: 45 credits
