[MB advising: This course does not meet any major or minor requirements for Marine Biology, but could be taken for electives or area of knowledge requirements.]

Current Issues in the Arctic: Arctic Environments is available to students to take as either Credit/No Credit or for a standard grade.

Students wishing to receive a grade for the course should register for ARCTIC 498. Those who want to take the course as C/NC may register in ARCTIC 401.

This class is taught by Jonathan Peyton, 2022-23 Fulbright Canada Visiting Chair in Arctic Studies. It will be built around a series of 5-6 invited lectures by colleagues who will speak on the question of “how do different disciplines understand Arctic environments?” We will hear from a wide range of perspectives on Arctic environments including social scientists, colleagues in the environmental humanities, art historians, environmental field scientists, policy and governance experts, and those working closely with communities. The other central component of the course will encourage students to engage critically with different kinds of documents that frame Arctic environments and peoples in different ways – film, policy documents, art, scientific data sets, media portrayals, academic research and more.

ARCTIC 401/ARCTIC 498 will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays from 2:30-4:20pm.

Please email canada@uw.edu with any questions.