Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development in Social Work

Catalog description

Addresses environmental crises and sustainable development challenges facing social workers in local and global arenas. Special attention will be made to conceptualize these challenges, themes and issues using a social justice and human rights framework embodied in Green Social Work. Social work pathways to facilitating environmental justice through local and global policy, coalitions and programming. Students must earn a "B" or higher in this class or it will have to be repeated and this may delay a student's ability to move forward in the program.