ARCTIC 400 – Integrating Policy and Science in Arctic Studies

Vince Gallucci and Don Hellmann

3 credits | T/TH | 2:30-4:20pm | COM 230 | SNL 21138

*Core Requirement for the UW Minor in Arctic

This course covers evolving issues in Arctic and world politics as climate changes in the Arctic system with a focus on Canada’s current role as Chair of the Arctic Council. The course begins with a review of climate and ice change with an overview of likely consequences of increasedaccess to underwater resources and to new transportation resources. The shared governance by the Arctic Council, the Law of the Sea, and the legal regimes of the five extended national jurisdictions in the Arctic Ocean are considered.