Gender, Health & Environment
Exploration of connections between social justice and environmental health using scientific tools of analysis. Focus on experiences of those at intersection of marginalized social locations. Issues include impacts of modern disposable culture and how socially constructed gender roles affect exposure to environmental health risks while biological sex shapes their impacts.
Prerequisites: ENVS 101 or ENVS 137 or BIOL 101.
Outcomes: Understanding the web of causality (relationships among scientific, medical, ecological, cultural, behavioral, economic, political, and ethical dimensions) of environmental health problems and how to ameliorate the disproportionate burden of risk.
Prerequisites: ENVS 101 or ENVS 137 or BIOL 101.
Outcomes: Understanding the web of causality (relationships among scientific, medical, ecological, cultural, behavioral, economic, political, and ethical dimensions) of environmental health problems and how to ameliorate the disproportionate burden of risk.