REL3490 Environmental Justice

This course will employ an intersectional analysis of the moral dimensions of environmental issues and problems and examine how and why environmental degradation and exploitation have posed an increased burden on the most marginalized members of the human community – minorities, people living in or near poverty, and people living in the developing world. The course will give particular attention to the role that religion has played and continues to play in the struggle for environmental justice.

Credits

4 sh

Course Types

Civilization; Advanced Studies

Offered

• Fall

Learning Outcomes

1. Students will be adept at the critical/engaged reading skills of summary, thesis identification, and critical analysis.
2. Students will recognize how the oppression of the environment is connected with other forms of oppression (intersectionality).
3. Students will demonstrate facility with environmental ethical thinking.
4. Students will demonstrate their ability to think critically about the socially constructed nature of that which can be categorized as “religious.”
5. Students will recognize and explain ways in which “religion” has cultural, political, and/or economic significance, and/or ways in which cultural, political, and/or economic phenomena have significance for “religion.”