Environmental Studies (EVST)

The course is an overview of issues in environmental studies from the perspective of the humanities and social sciences. Topics may include philosophical, theological, historical, economic, and/or political analyses of environmental issues. University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Understanding Human Behavior. This course may not be repeated for degree credit.

An introduction to geospatial and environmental research methods with an emphasis on the use of GIS as an essential methodology for the investigation and visualization of spatial data and multivariate environmental issues. University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Nature of Sci, Tech, Math. This course may not be repeated for degree credit.

See URBN 1000. This course may not be repeated for degree credit.

An examination of national/international public policies relevant to environmental issues. Course topics may include policies and relations germane to climate change, water rights/access, resource extraction, and biodiversity conservation. This course may not be repeated for degree credit.

An examination of the challenges of and potential solutions to the sustainability of socioeconomic, environmental, and ecological systems associated with historic, contemporary, and future urbanization. Course topics include an analysis of the sustainability of historic and contemporary cities, the consideration of sustainable alternatives associated with such trends as New Urbanism, and the potential for alternative urban policies and practices designed to foster sustainability. This course may not be repeated for degree credit.

This course investigates the relationship between race, health, and environment in its many manifestations—from the unjust distribution of exposure to pollution in poor and racialized communities to the environmental and health impacts of colonialism, racism, and war. Through engagement with key concepts in environmental studies, medical anthropology, and social studies of science, the course asks: what is the relationship between environmental injustice and health inequity? How are projects of domination—such as colonialism, racism, and war—also environmental projects? And how do we study contaminated and damaged environments and ill or injured bodies in just ways? Topics include racism and colonialism; toxicity and exposure; illness and disability; and healing, remediation, and repair. This course prepares students to critically engage scholarship on health, environment, and embodiment, with scholarship from both within and beyond the United States. University Core Fulfilled: IINC Interdisciplinary Connections

See URBN 3045. This course may not be repeated for degree credit.

An examination of the relationship between agrifood systems and social and environmental problems. Topics may include injustices such as farmworker and farm animal exploitation; the role of industrial agrifood systems in climate change; or food sovereignty. This course may not be repeated for degree credit.

See URBN 3200. University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Ethics and Justice This course may not be repeated for degree credit.

This course investigates the relationship between race, class, inequality, and the environment in domestic and international contexts. It reviews frameworks and methods for understanding the formation of environmental injustice, as well as various perspectives on the nature and meaning of justice. Course content includes case studies of environmental injustice, state-based legal and regulatory responses, and grassroots strategies for demanding environmental justice. This course may not be repeated for degree credit.

A capstone seminar in which student groups will bring to bear the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives they have developed in the minor by analyzing a local Environmental Impact Report (EIR) or similar local development issue. EVST seniors only or by consent of the UREV Chair. University Core fulfilled: Flag: Engaged Learning.