Environmental Justice Course Collection
These course descriptions have been submitted by faculty from a range of disciplines. The courses address various ways of teaching environmental justice across disciplines.
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Environment and Society
Andrew Scholl, Kent State University-Main Campus
This is an introductory course focused on the interactions between human activities and the environment, and is taught through the study of several environmental issues including water, energy, climate change, air ...
Earth & Mineral Resources
James Myers, University of Wyoming
An interdisciplinary lecture-lab course for upper division focusing on the Earth and mineral resources that are critical to maintaining a modern, industrialized society. The course follows a resource, e.g. copper, ...
Environmental Regulation and Enforcement
Lauren Waterworth, Appalachian State University
This is course primarily for science majors that will introduce them to the landscape of environmental regulation and enforcement in the U.S. The course will combine lecture with class discussion and in-class ...
Environmental Health and Policy
Bhavna Shamasunder, Occidental College
This is an introductory interdisciplinary environmental health science course that will introduce students to basic concepts in environmental health such as hazard and risk as well as topics such as water access ...
Environmental Justice and Sustainability
Josefina Li, Bemidji State University
The course investigates the ethical and moral dimensions of environmental choices, and the legal, philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings of various theories of justice. A major focus is the ...
FG215/EV277 Ecofeminism
Barbara Whitten, Colorado College
Welcome to ecofeminism! This class connects ideas about feminism and social justice with those of environmental degradation, using domination as a common theme. We'll look at potential links between the ...
Wetland Restoration
Herb Wang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
This 3‐credit, field‐based, workshop will introduce students to the multidisciplinary skills needed to work effectively with the complex and interconnected issues in a community‐based project in New Orleans ...
Environmental Justice
Christopher Wells, Macalester College
Poor and minority populations have historically borne the brunt of environmental inequalities in the United States, suffering disproportionately from the effects of pollution, dispossession of land, resource ...
The Global Environment
Michael Phillips, Illinois Valley Community College
This is an interdisciplinary course that introduces students to the study of environmental issues. Students read about and discuss a broad range of issues where humans interact with the environment. Topics range ...
English 283: Rhetorical Theory and Its Applications
Lisa Phillips, Texas Tech University
This is a course on rhetorical theory and its applications for English majors. It is a core course. Students learn key concepts by engaging in critical and analytical examination of the nature and historical ...