G 209 Environmental Justice
Examines the unequal exposure to environmental hazards and unequal access to natural resources by particular racial and socio-economic groups in the United States. Focuses on how the environmental justice movement has grown to address these issues. Recommended: WR 121 with a C or better.
Notes
Lower Division Transfer (LDT) Course
General Education Requirements
AS Different, Power, and Oppression, AGS Math/Science
Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
Evaluate scientific data to understand problems related to environmental justice. Apply techniques from multiple disciplines, such as the social sciences and geosciences, to study issues and solutions related to environmental justice. Explain how difference is socially constructed. Using historical and contemporary examples, describe how perceived differences, combined with unequal distribution of power across economic, social, and political institutions, result in discrimination. Analyze ways in which the interactions of social categories, such as race, ethnicity, social class, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and age, are related to difference, power, and discrimination in the United States.