Human-induced global environmental change has emerged as one of this millennium's defining scientific and societal challenges. This special topics course will introduce students to a wide range of topics and issues as they relate to global change science. Through readings, coursework, and discussion, students will study a range of topics that may include the different components of the Earth's environment, from the atmosphere to the ocean to the biosphere, and of the many ways they interact. Students will approach course content through a transdisciplinary approach. For example, as the full impact of rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere depends on a complex set of feedback effects, students may analyze changes in ocean chemistry, ocean circulation patterns, biological processes in plants and soils, atmospheric convection and cloud formation, and geological processes such as rock weathering.