Global warming and world energy resources depletion will be the topic of a new course starting this month at Berkshire Community College. The course, “Global Warming, Peak Oil and Humanity” (ENV-128-01), will meet once a week in the evening for four weeks and is open to the public as well as BCC students.

The instructor for the one-credit course, which was not listed in BCC’s spring semester schedule, is Mark Miller, a former editor of The Berkshire Eagle who worked on the daily news summary of the Climate Crisis Coalition in 2005 and 2006.

Classes will be held Thursday evening from 5:30 to 9:15 beginning April 24 and ending May 15. The course will include reading assignments from recent books and articles, lectures, guest appearances by specialists in the topics under consideration, a final exam, and a class project or individual research projects.

Anyone from the public wishing to take the course may do so as a non-degree student without having to apply for admission to BCC. When registering, both degree and non-degree students may also indicate that they are not interested in receiving a grade for the course and simply wish to audit it without have to complete course assignments or examinations. All students, regardless of their status, must satisfy an English prerequisite in basic reading and writing before registering for this course.

For more information, or to register, call BCC’s Academic Advising Center at 413-236-1620; or 800-816-1233 (in Mass. only), Ext. 1620. All registrations should be completed no later than Wednesday, April 16.