GEOG 137Hope in the Face of Mass Extinctions
Geography · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Discussion of the commonalities and historical contingencies between extinction events with respect to factors like global climate change, changing continental configuration and habitat connectivity, species’ geographic distributions and dispersal ability, and their interactions. Focus on anthropogenic climate change, the ongoing biodiversity crisis, and ways to mitigate their effects (conservation strategies, community-led and nature-based climate adaptations, and de-extinction technologies).
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 1 or 2 or Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences 1 or Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences 16 or Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 12.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from UCLA’s structured dataRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
GEOG 137
- GEOG 1Earth's Physical Environment
- GEOG 2Biodiversity in Changing World
- A&O SCI 1Climate Change: From Puzzles to Policy
- EE BIOL 12Biodiversity and Extinction: Crisis and Conservation
- EPS SCI 16Major Events in History of Life
5 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 5 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.