Environmental Justice and Population Health

3 credits

Critically examines environmental justice as a social movement, with a focus on environmental and occupational exposures and related health outcomes and health disparities. Students explore the ways in which environmental racism, inequality, and injustice lead to disproportionate impacts of pollution on Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities and explore how environmental justice intersects with race, class, and health. Offered: Sp.