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 121Z with a C or better.
Notes
Lower Division Transfer (LDT) Course
General Education Requirements
AGS Math/Science, AS Different, Power, and Oppression, AS Diff, Power & Oppress Found
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 ascribed differences are socially constructed, change over time, and impact our and others’ lived experiences. Articulate– using historical and contemporary examples – how ascribed differences, combined with inequitable distribution of power across cultural, economic, social, and/or political institutions, result in racism and intersect with other forms of systemic oppression. Describe how assets and resilience demonstrated by members of systematically marginalized communities and cultures play a role in dismantling racism and other systems of oppression.