Environment and Power

1 Credit · Level: Undergraduate

In this course, you will be introduced to the relationship between power and environmental change. Together, we will cultivate an understanding of the past and future of environmental inequities and differentiated environmental risk impacts, especially for marginalized communities, in the context of future action and intergenerational justice and ethics. We will ground the work of this course with a practice that Integrates core values of empathy, compassion and humility into analytical and technical perspectives of ecological issues including land, water, and energy. This class will meet for the first five weeks of the semester.(Note that completion of all four Interruption & Integration modules, ERTH 1008 /1009 and 1018/1019, will satisfy the HALC requirement.)