SOC GEN 155Heat, Biology, and Society: Approaches to Climate Health
Society and Genetics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Heat kills more people than any other natural disaster annually. The effects of heat are hard to discern, penetrating into communities, homes, bodies, organs, and cells. As Earth continues to warm as a consequence of climate change, many people will experience debilitating levels of heat exposure. But not everyone experiences the heat to the same degree. Examination of both how bodies respond to heat and how exposure to heat overlays longer histories of inequality.
Letter grading.
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Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
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