ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Not open to students with credit for GEOG/ENVIR ST 337 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. Identify different social science approaches that can be used to understand environment-society relations Audience: Undergraduate 2. Analyze and explain how social, economic, and political conditions affect the environment and environmental issues Audience: Undergraduate 3. Explain the social, economic and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenges of population growth, natural resource consumption, and market economies Audience: Undergraduate 4. Analyze objects, ideas, and current events using an environment and society perspective Audience: Undergraduate 5. Describe the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of issues like climate change and environmental justice and identify potential tradeoffs and interrelationships among these dimensions at a level appropriate to the course Audience: Undergraduate 6. Demonstrate writing that shows mastery of evidence-based critical thinking Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify different social science approaches that can be used to understand environment-society relations Audience: Undergraduate 2. Analyze and explain how social, economic, and political conditions affect the environment and environmental issues Audience: Undergraduate 3. Explain the social, economic and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenges of population growth, natural resource consumption, and market economies Audience: Undergraduate 4. Analyze objects, ideas, and current events using an environment and society perspective Audience: Undergraduate 5. Describe the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of issues like climate change and environmental justice and identify potential tradeoffs and interrelationships among these dimensions at a level appropriate to the course Audience: Undergraduate 6. Demonstrate writing that shows mastery of evidence-based critical thinking Audience: Undergraduate