ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Catalog description

Course critically examines environmental justice as a social movement. Students will explore the ways in which environmental racism, inequality, and injustice lead to disproportionate impacts of environmental hazards on Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities. In this course, students will explore the origins of the uneven distribution of environmental problems across communities, examine ways to measure environmental inequality, and analyze how environmental problems reflect and exacerbate social inequality. The history of the Environmental Justice movement will be examined while connecting the struggle to present-day environmental justice issues. Students will critically analyze environmental justice movements with a focus on solutions from grassroots activism to federal legislation.