Sustainability and Community Resilience

Catalog description

Topics include political ecology of health, housing and homelessness, migration, climate change, and community health and wellbeing. The course draws on multiple disciplines, including public health, environmental studies, geography, political science, sociology, and anthropology. The class is discussion-based and project-based, and includes experiential field experiences. Students design and complete a class research project on a local community social-environmental issue, and are introduced to ethnographic and qualitative social science research methods. Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer