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University of California, San Diego, has implemented an innovative graduation requirement for students starting this autumn: a course in climate change, designed to be integrated into existing classwork, chosen from 40 one-quarter courses. About 7,000 students from the class of 2028 will be affected this year. “We’re acutely aware as a society of how the climate is changing and how scary that can be, and that probably means that we need to implement some changes in how we do things,” says Sarah Gille, a physical oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography who helped create the new plan. “If they’re thinking about the future, they need to be prepared for what the future might bring.” That could mean new opportunities in fields such as carbon accounting or civil engineering with a climate focus.
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