360 Presentation: Green City to Green Campus: Community-Informed Sustainability from Freiburg to Bryn Mawr

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time. This 360° cluster integrates literary, scientific, and policy perspectives to highlight both the complexity of the issue and the many innovative ideas that are being developed to address it worldwide. We explore how fictional and creative depictions of nature and encounters with the environment reflect and sometimes promote social, cultural, and political transformations. We examine how the advent of human-induced climate change has prompted new ways of thinking about quality of life, new technological approaches to energy supply, and new political solutions to problems of resource exploitation and environmental justice. 

The 360° Program invites students to delve into a theme or question from multiple disciplinary perspectives by enrolling in a cluster of multiple courses taught by individual faculty in a single semester for the purposes of research and scholarship.

Interdisciplinary and interactive, 360° builds on Bryn Mawr's strong institutional history of learning experiences beyond the traditional classroom, placed within a rigorous academic framework. 360° participants hone their arguments and insights through writing and research, develop strategies for teamwork that push the limits of their talents and creativity, and work with professors and scholars to promote big-picture thinking. Experiential learning and travel opportunities associated with the 360° Program are funded by Bryn Mawr College.