Building Resilience: Social and Environmental Justice in our Built Environment

Catalog description

Social and Environmental Justice in our Built Environment is a transdisciplinary course introducing the shared responsibility by all of us for creating a more resilient built environment. Students learn terms and policies concerning anthropometric data, ergonomics, proxemics and expand their understanding of barrier-free design within multiple contexts. The course covers areas of psychology, sociology and the physical factors influencing the creation of our built environment. With our lives spent almost always inside an enclosure, understanding how the built environment has developed over time within diverse cultures can help solve climate change and social and income inequalities within marginalized communities. Course material is synthesized and applied to demonstrate critical thinking, experiential learning, research and writing, understanding primary and secondary sources and discerning essential texts and authors in areas of concern, teamwork, creativity and leadership. Offered: Spring