SWK 3070 - Environmental Justice in Social Work

Credits: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENG 1010; ENG 1020

Description: This course will examine how the environment relates to issues of social justice and inequality. Students will examine how environmental issues such as pollution, disasters, and waste sites disproportionately affect marginalized communities. This course examines urban, rural, and suburban spaces, as environmental issues shape individual and community well-being in each of these spaces. Issues of community organizing and activism are examined as tools for effecting change on these topics. Students will apply the generalist intervention model to issues of sustainability, and environmental protection and management.