Environmental Justice

Catalog description

Environmental Justice has two distinct meanings. The first refers to the study of how and why environmental problems are experienced differently according to race, gender, class, and nationality. The second describes a social movement that works to fight unequal access to clean, healthy environments, and the services that they provide. This course focuses on both aspects of environmental justice, examining the social dynamics that lead to environmental harms being distributed unequally among different communities and nations as well as the role of the environmental justice movement in fighting environment inequalities and injustices. Prerequisite: CRIM 115 or SOC 110 or SOC 120 or ENV 101 . Offered Spring.