SUSTAINABLE AND SOCIALLY JUST CONSUMPTION

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Come away able to think beyond binary models and think about sustainability in terms of cycles or circular models Audience: Undergraduate 2. Have the tools to connect historical narratives to contemporary ones,seeming how societal values set in motion the current relationship american society has to the environment Audience: Undergraduate 3. Have a greater ability to be an informed consumer, conscious of the ways individual choices have effects on the environment and other societies Audience: Undergraduate 4. Study environmental issues through a lens of environmental justice, understanding that certain communities are affected at disproportionate rates by all aspects of normative consumer life Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Come away able to think beyond binary models and think about sustainability in terms of cycles or circular models Audience: Undergraduate 2. Have the tools to connect historical narratives to contemporary ones,seeming how societal values set in motion the current relationship american society has to the environment Audience: Undergraduate 3. Have a greater ability to be an informed consumer, conscious of the ways individual choices have effects on the environment and other societies Audience: Undergraduate 4. Study environmental issues through a lens of environmental justice, understanding that certain communities are affected at disproportionate rates by all aspects of normative consumer life Audience: Undergraduate