Section Information

Days, Times, and Locations

Wednesday
10:00 am - 11:50 am
Watershed Institute - Rm. 101 - map

Class Number (Formerly CRN)

40916

Registration Consent

Instructor's Consent Required

Instructor(s)

Daniel Shapiro

Enrollment

iLearn

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University Learning Requirements

English Communication B
Culture and Equity

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Course Description:

Analyzes environmental justice movement, focusing on case studies and students' personal connections to the issues considered. Questions the identity of those empowered (or not) to control environmental decision making, how power is gained and lost, the burdens of inequitable distribution of resources, and the price of environmental pollution. Service learning placements help students understand course material. Requires successful completion of coursework that satisfies the ENGCOM A ULR. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Corequisites, Prerequisites & Restrictions:

Footnotes:

• Course has prerequisite(s).

Start & End Dates:

Start: August 24, 2009
End: December 20, 2009

Consent Requirements:

Catalog History

Course Materials

edited Ronald Sandler and Phaedra C. Pezzullo, Environmental justice and environmentalism : the social justice challenge to the environmental movement (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007)
ISBN: 0262693402
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Required Reading

edited Norman J. Vig, Michael E. Kraft, Environemtnal policy : new directions for the twenty-first century. ([S.l.]: Congressional Quarterly, 2009)
ISBN: 9780872899735
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Required Reading