ENVR 120: Environmental Justice

Number of Section: 1 | Day and Time: T/TH (08:00-09:40 ICT)

Course Description

This course explores environmental justice and injustice in relation to various environmental issues, including mining, urbanization, conservation, climate change, water resource utilization, and land reform. Rather than approaching these topics as technical or scientific problems, they are approached as social issues that are profoundly interwoven with colonialism, patriarchy, and racial capitalism. The course will reflect the praxis of environmental justice in its alternation between close and critical analysis of the dynamics and causes of environmental injustice and the social possibilities and movements for environmental justice. 

In addition to required readings, the course will involve two film screenings and numerous short media texts that depict environmental issues.

Prerequisites: None