Abstract
Objectives This study critically examines the challenges of environmental education in higher education in order to discuss future directions of the environmental education system and strengthen its theoretical and practical basis.
 Methods By focusing on a case study of a liberal arts course, ‘Climate Change and the Anthropocene’, the learning process is analyzed following the progression of the curriculum. The students' environmental awareness and the potentiality of environmental action are observed.
 Results As a result of the study, the students strengthened their pre-existing awareness of the socioeconomic mechanism that structures climate change and reflected on their environmental behavior by connecting it to their daily lives. Regarding specific issues, they had various positions within a broad spectrum, showing the potential to continue with their own concerns and challenges as well as a tendency to conform to the norm, avoid exploring fundamental changes, and sustain the status quo.
 Conclusions The need to focus on theoretical and methodological discussions on how environmental education in higher education as well as primary and secondary education systems can be more coherent and efficient is emphasized.
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