Environmental/Justice Films

Catalog description

This course is designed to introduce Social Justice and Sustainability Prodesse Scholars to a variety of environmental and social justice issues through cinema. The emphasis will be fictional feature films, not documentaries, but the feature films may be based on reality. Students will meet to watch films together and reflect on the messages they carry about environmental and social justice issues and how those messages are disseminated to the viewers. Students will explore the relationship between art and message. Cross-listed with IES 127 .