The university debate: specialize or be a generalist?

It was one of those beautiful moments of intellectual revelation that undergraduate education is all about. Evan Pivnick was reading Climate Wars by Gwynne Dyer when he realized that climate change wasn't just a problem of science but also of politics. 

"I used to think about it in an analog way," recalls the University of Victoria political science graduate of his formerly single-channel thinking. All of a sudden, communication theory, psychology, economics and law seemed hugely relevant. "I didn't want to take a narrow look at climate change. I wanted to study the whole spectrum."

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