ENVT 330 - Environment, Sustainability, and Social Justice

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-D; Social Justice
Environmental sustainability and social justice interactions, US and international. Social and ethical implications of environmental and resource limits. Sustainable development as a vehicle for social justice.

Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area D1-3 requirements.
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 with grade C- (CR) or better; and junior, senior, or post-baccalaureate standing.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-D - Upper Division Social Sciences, Overlay - Social Justice
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Identify causes of environmental injustice, based on evidence and case studies.
Identify interactions between environmental decline, social conflict, and insecurity, and their implications for poor and minority groups.
Explain how globalization has exported environmental injustice, identifying relevant examples.
Evaluate the implications of distributional equity goals and environmental limits for global population and consumption levels and vice versa.
Describe prominent approaches and strategies for achieving an environmentally sustainable and socially just world.

UD-D. Upper-division Social Sciences Learning Outcomes

analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods;
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences; and
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.

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.