Section Info: ENVST-216-01

Course Title: Global Environmental Justice
Start Date: 09/04/2024 End Date: 12/17/2024
Term: Fall Semester 2024
Description: From struggles for racial justice and Indigenous self-determination, to action for biodiversity conservation, many of the world's most urgent issues are also environmental justice challenges. This course will survey the theoretical questions, concepts, and perspectives on environmental justice at local and global scales. In the first part of the course, we will do a brief historical overview of the environmental justice movement and environmentalism(s), and we will discuss global contemporary issues like e-waste and food justice. In the second part of the course, we will analyze the multiple definitions and meanings that social movements and collectives give to justice. As such, we will engage with decolonial, Indigenous, eco-feminist, queer, and multispecies perspectives. Throughout the semester, students will analyze a case study of environmental (in)justice, which will culminate in a research-grounded sci-fi creative piece that represents a more just future in their chosen case.
Distribution(s): I - Humanities , MP - Multicultural Perspectives
Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate     Credits:4.00    

Faculty         Phone         Email address        
Sylvia Cifuentes             scifuentes@mtholyoke.edu  

Meeting Dates         Method         Meeting days         Meeting times         Building name         Room     Frequency    
09/04/2024 - 12/17/2024   Lecture   Tuesday and Thursday   10:30AM - 11:45AM   CLAP - Clapp Laboratory   413   Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses        
Prereq: ENVST-100 or 4 credits in humanities or social science. Take previously   Required  

Comments        
Additional Comments        
Course Tags        
ENVST-CRSE   ENVST-EL: Env Studies Major Elective   This course is an approved elective for the Environmental Studies major.  

Cross-listed Sections        
None  

Course Availability
Section status: Waitlisted     Capacity: 18     Enrollment: 19     Available: 0     Waitlist: 25
Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List         Required         Publisher Full Price        
To be determined.                    

Additional Book Comments        
This is NOT the complete book list for this class.