SUST 310 - Environmental and Social Justice

Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Laboratory Hours: 0

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 100

Restriction(s): None

Corequisite(s): None

This course introduces theories of social justice with special attention to environmental justice and issues relevant to the study of sustainability. Students will survey a variety of perspectives and cases pertaining to forms of privilege and oppression, including but not limited to racism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism, ageism, and economic oppression as well as resistance efforts to those forms. With that foundation, the course will then focus at greater length and in greater depth on the question of environmental justice.

Student Learning Outcomes of the Course:

Explain common perspectives on aspects of social and environmental justice
Critique public policies and organizational practices for their contributions to social and environmental justice and injustice
Compare and contrast individual and systemic barriers to justice
Reflect on their roles as individuals and within a variety of communities, with special attention to intersectionality and lived experience
Investigate a case of environmental injustice and design a response