Course Title:
Political Ecology and Environmental Justice
Course Description:
Analyzes the global ecological crisis and state of environmental politics. Includes analyses of history and nature; the logic of economic growth and ecological degradation; the human/environmental impacts of technology; globalization and the export of environmental hazard; imperialism and the ecological destruction of the Third World, with a particular emphasis on Central America; the role of ecological programs in the current economic and social crisis of the United States (and other countries); ecological stratification and environmental injustice; the crisis of the labor and ecology movements; and the future of environmental politics.
Fall Offering:
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Spring Offering:
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Summer Offering:
Lab/Coreq Remarks:
Summer 1 Offering:
Prerequisite 1:
SOC U101
Summer 2 Offering:
Prerequisite 2:
SOC U246
Cross-Listed Course 1:
Prerequisite 3:
ENG U111
Cross-Listed Course 2:
Prerequisite 4:
Cross-Listed Course 3:
Prerequisite 5:
Cross-Listed Course 4:
Prerequisite Remarks:
Cross-Listed Course 5:
Repeatable:
N
Additional Information:
Approved course: NU Core-Writing Intensive in Major
