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Arctic Climate, Environ. & Geographies of a Changing North 专项课程
Sharpen Your Knowledge of the Changing Arctic. Master your knowledge of the Arctic, the rapid changes taking place, and their connections with Northern peoples, economies and geopolitics.
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您将学到的内容有
Mastering Arctic geography.
Understanding the pronounced and interconnected changes unfolding in the Arctic.
Recognizing intimate connections between the changing Arctic, Northern economies, peoples, and geopolitics.
Appreciate the long history of the Arctic and its peoples
您将获得的技能
关于此 专项课程
应用的学习项目
This specialization will consist of in-video questions, short quizzes for each module, and a final project for each course. Projects include a set of mapping exercises to gain familiarity with the Arctic region and its climate, a poster designed to illustrate and explain connections between observed physical and ecological changes unfolding in the Arctic and how the Arctic system will likely evolve in the 21st Century, and a project of each student's choice to illustrate how the changing Arctic will affect them and their community.
There are no recommended backgrounds for those taking this specialization, other than an interest in our planet's changing environment.
There are no recommended backgrounds for those taking this specialization, other than an interest in our planet's changing environment.
专项课程的运作方式
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Coursera 专项课程是帮助您掌握一门技能的一系列课程。若要开始学习,请直接注册专项课程,或预览专项课程并选择您要首先开始学习的课程。当您订阅专项课程的部分课程时,您将自动订阅整个专项课程。您可以只完成一门课程,您可以随时暂停学习或结束订阅。访问您的学生面板,跟踪您的课程注册情况和进度。
实践项目
每个专项课程都包括实践项目。您需要成功完成这个(些)项目才能完成专项课程并获得证书。如果专项课程中包括单独的实践项目课程,则需要在开始之前完成其他所有课程。
获得证书
在结束每门课程并完成实践项目之后,您会获得一个证书,您可以向您的潜在雇主展示该证书并在您的职业社交网络中分享。

此专项课程包含 3 门课程
The Arctic as a System
In this course you will first learn about the Arctic as a geographic region, the peoples the Arctic, and the long history of Arctic settlement and exploration. Attention then turns to key features of the Arctic environment – its climate and weather, features of the ocean, sea ice, lands and the Greenland Ice Sheet, and some of the rapid changes being observed.
The Changing Arctic: Present, Past, & Future
This course takes a detailed look at the remarkable changes unfolding in the Arctic environment, including the shrinking Arctic sea ice cover, shrinking land ice, thawing permafrost and cascading impacts on Arctic ecosystems. After a review of Arctic climates of the past, attention turns to the possible future of the Arctic’s climate and environment.
Arctic Change & the Nexus of Governance, Economics & Culture
In this course, you will learn how the changing Arctic environment is tied to the growing economic and strategic importance of the North. After setting the stage through a review of the peoples of the Arctic and how they are dealing with change, Arctic governance, economies national defense, attention turns to marine use of the Arctic, oil and gas exploration, mining, fisheries and tourism. The course ends with a survey of recent Arctic events.
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