"Starting in January, students at the University of Colorado will be able to earn a cool new certificate 鈥� literally.
The university is launching an听听for undergraduates on the 麻豆影院 campus this spring semester.
Courses required to earn the certificate, which is open to students of all majors, will discuss the environmental, political and cultural issues of the polar region, which includes parts of Canada, Greenland, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Russia and the United States.
"If you look at the Arctic, it's the key place in this world where climate change and geopolitics are becoming very, very closely intertwined with each other," said Mark Serreze, director of CU's National Snow and Ice Data Center. "In no other place in the world do you really see this emerging as strongly as you see it in the Arctic. One of the big things driving this whole certificate is the recognition that the Arctic is becoming a very important region and we ought to be paying attention to it." ...