Catalog Description: This course will introduce the ways race and racism are relevant to ecological processes and management through topics that broadly span both environmental and climate justice, while also exploring how we can understand non-dominant ways of knowing and relating to the environment, particularly focusing on Black and Indigenous ecologies and ecological relationships. In this course, students will learn the interconnections between ecological processes and the complexities that shape our social world. Students will learn how to apply a racial ecologies lens to the world around them. We will examine traditional and emerging directions in the fields of Political Ecology, Environmental and Climate Justice, Geographies of race, and more.
Units: 3.0
Prerequisites: None
Formats:
Fall and/or Spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Grading Basis: Letter
Final Exam Status: Alternate method of final assessment during regularly scheduled final exam group (e.g., presentation, final project, etc.).