LAW AND ENVIRONMENT: HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Communication & Literacy Comm QR - Communication B Breadth - Humanities or 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 Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze and articulate their own arguments about how social, political, and cultural phenomena shape law and legal systems. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Analyze and articulate their own arguments about the social, political, and cultural impacts of law at the societal and individual levels. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Demonstrate knowledge about how legal ideas and ideologies have changed over time and have shaped law and legal systems. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Demonstrate their abilities to find, interpret, and utilize resources relevant to law and society. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Demonstrate their abilities to analyze information, to write clearly and persuasively, and to construct original arguments. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Analyze the causes of and solutions for the sustainability challenge of the conservation of natural resources, especially insofar as their governance involves and impacts local stakeholders. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Analyze the social, economic, legal, political, and environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenge of regulating and governing biodiversity, clean air and water, and other, larger earth systems (such as climate). Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 8. Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the historiography or other scholarly debates that have shaped the study of conservation and environmental law. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze and articulate their own arguments about how social, political, and cultural phenomena shape law and legal systems. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Analyze and articulate their own arguments about the social, political, and cultural impacts of law at the societal and individual levels. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Demonstrate knowledge about how legal ideas and ideologies have changed over time and have shaped law and legal systems. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Demonstrate their abilities to find, interpret, and utilize resources relevant to law and society. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Demonstrate their abilities to analyze information, to write clearly and persuasively, and to construct original arguments. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Analyze the causes of and solutions for the sustainability challenge of the conservation of natural resources, especially insofar as their governance involves and impacts local stakeholders. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Analyze the social, economic, legal, political, and environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenge of regulating and governing biodiversity, clean air and water, and other, larger earth systems (such as climate). Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 8. Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the historiography or other scholarly debates that have shaped the study of conservation and environmental law. Audience: Graduate