Course Details

This course examines how policy interacts with race and class to affect differentially people's access to a clean, safe, productive environment; Reviews history of the environmental justice movement, and community, policy, and legal responses; Develops students' ability to work across diverse social groups to advance environmental justice and sustainability.

Outcomes: Describe the history, central aims, practices, and continuing evolution of modern-day environmental justice movements; Identify theories of justice underlying environmental justice movements; Analyze structures and processes of inequality, exclusion, colonization, capitalism, and speciesism as they relate to environmental degradation; Describe how communities build power to address environmental injustices; Reflect upon your own social positionality, consider the value of environmental justice theory and action for your own life.