The thing I appreciated most about this class was the way it recontextualized climate change as something more than an environmental dilemma. Through the interdisciplinary lens applied by the course, we could understand climate change as a social, political, and cultural issue that affects each of us in unique ways. At the end of the quarter, I wrote my final paper on the ways in which dog sledding culture, both for sport and for subsistence, is being wiped out by climate change. This topic was important to me to highlight because it is a culture that has never made its way fully into the mainstream, and now it may die out before it's had the chance to fully thrive.