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This course will focus on anthropogenic environmental emergencies, such as global warming, habitat destruction, and the introduction of invasive species. Students will investigate specific cases discussed in recent peer-reviewed scientific articles, and will evaluate possible solutions to these crises from multiple perspectives.

Have you ever been asked where you stand on 'the climate issue'? Do you believe that humanity stands at the brink of extinction? Do you think that climate change is a concern, but that technology will see humanity through? This course will allow you to construct an educated point of view.
We will start by understanding what drives weather events and what drives climate and climate change. We will then move on to the environmental and societal dependencies on specific climate factors (precipitation,seasonality, predictability, etc.) and we will identify the impacts that certain climatic changes can have on human society and the environment. In carrying out our investigation of the climate system and its impacts we will rely on the latest Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). We will study the emerging results from the reports focusing on observations, impacts, mitigations, and adaptation strategies suggested by the worldwide community of climate scientists contributing to the IPCC. Students are expected to develop a fact-based physics-based opinion of humanities present-day climate change predicament.

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Uses the unsurpassed richness of the art museums of Paris as the principal teaching resource. The history of Western Art is studied through the close examination of a limited selection of major works in a variety of media. The works chosen illuminate the political, social and religious contexts of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Baroque and Rococo periods, and the modern epoch. The course has an extra course fee of 35 euros.