Environmental Justice

Catalog description

Students completing this course will be able to: speak and write clearly and knowledgeably about environmental justice and the related cultures, religions, and ethics they have studied; effectively employ critical methodologies appropriate to the subject matter of the course; describe the major content areas and questions relevant to the course; engage in respectful encounters with diverse viewpoints; communicate more knowledgably about the experiences, perspectives and contributions of diverse individuals/groups in the U.S. with regard to race or ethnicity and gender; evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the different perspectives of the various groups; use their new awareness of similarities and differences among groups and individuals to better understand an increasingly complex world.