“How to Change the World” (UC100.xx) uses our current moment in a socially-distanced world to introduce students to the concept of “wicked problems” and how a multi-disciplinary approach can help us to approach and understand them.
Specifically, students will acquire a core knowledge of COVID-19 across all sections of the course, but dedicate the majority of the course to exploring how a specific discipline approaches the larger questions exacerbated or revealed by the pandemic. (Students can register in humanities, natural sciences, social sciences.) The course will count toward a 1.0 unit credit in the division where the student registers.
There is also a 0.25 credit version that is open to anyone ( UC150), where students participate in the “global” set of course readings and assignments.
OWU Sponsoring Organization/Office: How to Change the World Course.
Contact: Shala Hankison at sjhankis@owu.edu