Gender, Race and Environmental Justice

3 cr · Undergraduate

Relying on interdisciplinary feminist and Indigenous perspectives, this course examines how historical and present-day environmental issues do not exist "out there," but profoundly shape our bodies and lives, and in turn are shaped by social structures and inequities. It includes study of relationships between human and non-human beings in different places and times, and invites students to consider both the interconnection between social and environmental struggles and the misperception that humans and environments somehow exist in isolation from one another. It also provides room to study, envision and enact alternative planetary relationships. Students may not hold credit for both WOMN 3130 and WOMN 3500 with the topic "Nature, Culture, Gender."