A US university has a new requirement to graduate: take a climate change course

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UC San Diego has added an innovative prerequisite to 'prepare students for the future they really will encounter'.

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The move mirrors a larger sentiment in society. According to a Marist poll this year, 85% of gen Z is very or somewhat concerned about the climate crisis. They are more likely to believe the climate crisis is caused "mostly by human activity" than any other generation. And states from California to Connecticut and New Jersey are now requiring that kids learn about the climate crisis in grade school classrooms.

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Arizona State University has also implemented a new sustainability requirement for graduation this year. Universities such as Columbia, Harvard and Stanford are taking the climate focus a step further and have created entire schools devoted to the issue.

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A wider rollout of climate change courses for graduation is possible across the vast, statewide University of California system, but the school is first focusing on its own plan. "The important thing for UC San Diego was to do what made sense for our campus and to see how this requirement is adopted," Gille says. "If we can do something that's bigger, we can potentially create a generation of college graduates who are better prepared for the future."