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Oct 14, 2024
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ES 365 - Asian American and Pacific Islander Environmental Voices Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-C; Social Justice An analysis of key literary texts in the emerging field of Asian American & Pacific Islander Environmentalism and their relationship to important issues such as sustainability, neoliberal globalization, labor, environmental justice, environmental disaster, post-colonial ecology/tourism, indigenous culture, and ecofeminism.
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area C requirements; and ES Majors: ES 100 and ES 200. Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 with grade C- (CR) or better. Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground, or Entirely Online, or Hybrid. Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice). Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-C - Upper Division Arts or Humanities, Overlay - Social Justice Course Typically Offered: Fall ONLY
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Analyze key cultural productions in AAPI Environmentalism
- Apply key concepts from ecocriticism and environmental justice literature to the understanding of cultural texts
- Explain colonialism, decolonization and environmental racism as foundations of indigenous Pacific Islander sovereignty
- Demonstrate how the perspectives of the humanities are used to inform and engage AAPI environmentalism to benefit local and global communities
UD-C. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply the principles, methodologies, value systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities;
- analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human; and
- demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts and humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.
Social Justice Overlay Learning Outcomes
- use a disciplinary perspective to analyze issues of social justice and equity;
- describe the challenges to achieving social justice; and
- identify ways in which individuals and/or groups can contribute to social justice within local communities, nations, or the world.
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