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Lightning Talk as part of the Climate Justice Symposium for Transforming Education (chesc.org/cjste/). Advancing climate justice requires students to combat climate injustice and create innovative solutions to the climate crisis in their careers and communities. Therefore, all students need to have an interdisciplinary understanding of climate justice. We are building a model to teach climate justice across all UCSD departments, enabling interested instructors to integrate climate justice into their existing courses without impacting student time-to-degree.

This year Prof. Karl Gerth and I redeveloped his Chinese history course to include climate justice throughout, which is being taught this term. A highlight of this course is the Wikipedia Assignment, where students revise current (or create new) Wikipedia entries focused on how the climate crisis disproportionately impacts minority groups in China within the context of global capitalism and the Chinese state.

The Wikipedia Assignment can be adapted to almost any course as a writing component. This assignment empowers students to advance climate justice through direct engagement with the global Wikipedia community and hone their critical reading, writing, and research skills. Ultimately, our goal is to ensure all students graduate with the knowledge, skills, and confidence necessary to advance climate justice in their careers and communities, whatever and wherever they may be.

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