Section Info: POLIT-387EV-01

Course Title: Advanced Topics in Politics: 'U.S. Environmental Politics and Policy'
Start Date: 01/28/2025 End Date: 05/13/2025
Term: Spring Semester 2025
Description: Environmental concerns are no longer a niche "special interest" in American politics. Today multiplying and intensifying ecological crises are getting harder to ignore, and the need for action is urgent. Deciding how to respond to and govern a climate-changed world is now one of the defining political challenges of our time. This course examines the history of environmental debates in the United States, the diverse range of actors and organizations participating in these debates, current laws and institutions regulating Americans' relationships with their environments at both the federal and state levels, and the processes for making and implementing public policy for the environment.
Distribution(s): III - Social Sciences , SI - Speaking-Intensive , WI - Writing-Intensive , TP - Topics Course
Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate     Credits:4.00    

Faculty         Phone         Email address        
Robert Darrow             rdarrow@mtholyoke.edu  

Meeting Dates         Method         Meeting days         Meeting times         Building name         Room     Frequency    
01/28/2025 - 05/13/2025   Seminar   Monday and Wednesday   10:00AM - 11:15AM   SKNR - Skinner Hall   212   Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses        
Prereq: 8 credits in Politics. Take previously   Required  

Comments        
Additional Comments        
Course Tags        
POLIT-AMER   POLIT-AMER: Politics - American subfield   This course has been approved to count towards the American Politics subfield of the Politics major (100-200-level courses only) and minor (all courses).  
ENVST-SS   ENVST-SS: Env Studies pre-2024 Minor - Social Science   This course has been approved to count towards the Environmental Studies minor Social Science area.  
ENVST-CRSE   ENVST-EL: Env Studies Electives   This course is an approved elective for the Environmental Studies major and minor.  

Cross-listed Sections        
None  

Course Availability
Section status: Waitlisted     Capacity: 18     Enrollment: 18     Available: 0     Waitlist: 7
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.