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ENVIR ST 331

ENERGY JUSTICE

3-4 credits.

What would a just energy transition look like? How might a shift from fossil fuels to low-carbon energy sources connect to questions around social justice, environmental racism, democracy, and anticolonialism? Energy systems are not just technical systems: they are also social, political, environmental, and spatial systems, intimately connected to our everyday lives. That means that changes to our energy systems - from fossil fuels to low-carbon energy sources, in how and where we extract and generate energy, and to the processes of energy decision-making - have far-ranging effects. Examines our shifting energy geographies through the frameworks of energy justice, asking how we might think socially and spatially about decarbonization, electrification, and energy access in a moment of climate crisis.

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Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the technical, sociopolitical, economic, environmental, and spatial dimensions of different energy resources. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Describe core concepts in the energy social sciences, such as energy justice, energy democracy, and energy poverty. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Describe the socio-political institutions that govern energy systems and the energy justice impacts of energy policies. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Discuss how energy decisions are impacted by environmental, technical, sociopolitical, and spatial factors. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Identify energy justice and policy work across scales, from the local to the global. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Pose a research question, conduct research, and write a compelling argument on an energy-related topic. Audience: Undergraduate 7. Pose an advanced research question, review peer-reviewed literature, and write a compelling argument on an energy-related topic. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the technical, sociopolitical, economic, environmental, and spatial dimensions of different energy resources. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Describe core concepts in the energy social sciences, such as energy justice, energy democracy, and energy poverty. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Describe the socio-political institutions that govern energy systems and the energy justice impacts of energy policies. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Discuss how energy decisions are impacted by environmental, technical, sociopolitical, and spatial factors. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Identify energy justice and policy work across scales, from the local to the global. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Pose a research question, conduct research, and write a compelling argument on an energy-related topic. Audience: Undergraduate 7. Pose an advanced research question, review peer-reviewed literature, and write a compelling argument on an energy-related topic. Audience: Graduate

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