Introduction to Environmental Justice: Race, Class, Gender and Place

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Course Description

This course examines the rhetoric, history and key case studies of environmental justice while encouraging critical and collaborative thinking, reading and researching about diversity in environmental movements within the global community and at Stanford, including the ways race, class and gender have shaped environmental battles still being fought today. We center diverse voices by bringing leaders, particularly from marginalized communities on the frontlines to our classroom to communicate experiences, insights and best practices. Together we will develop and present original research projects which may serve a particular organizational or community need, such as racialized dispossession, toxic pollution and human health, or indigenous land and water rights, among many others. Cardinal Course certified by the Haas Center for Public Service.

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Grading Basis

RLT - Letter (ABCD/NP)

Min

4

Max

4

Course Repeatable for Degree Credit?

No

Course Component

Seminar

Enrollment Optional?

No

This course has been approved for the following WAYS

Exploring Difference and Power (EDP), Social Inquiry (SI)

Does this course satisfy the University Language Requirement?

No

Programs

ENVRES223 is a completion requirement for: