GEG 2700 - Geographies of Environmental Justice

Credits: 3

Description: This class explores why people of color and lower income populations are subject to the disproportionate burden of pollution and contamination and analyzes collective struggles of affected people to democratize access to a clean environment. Environmental justice is at the intersection of social justice and environmentalism and helps us to better understand geographies of socio-environmental injustices and how people take actions to make the places where they live, work, and play safer. Students learn how issues such as air pollution, waste management, unsafe drinking water, working conditions on farms, food deserts, climate change, and other environmental hazards affect people living in low income communities across the United States.

Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix, GEG or NAS.

General Studies: Social and Behavioral Sciences

Guaranteed Transfer: GT-SS2

University Requirement(s): Ethnic Studies & Social Justice

Cross Listed Course(s): NAS 2700