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WGS 3000 - Thinking Green: Gender, Race, and Environmental Justice

Credits: 4
This course takes an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach to environmental legal studies, emphasizing critical feminist, queer, transgender, race, and disability studies. Students will study environmental racism and how pollutants and toxic waste impact the health, lives, and land/resources of economically disadvantaged communities of color, including Native Americans, along with efforts to change this. The course will also examine ecofeminism and the historic and current social movements that work towards both gender and environmental justice. Highlighting decolonial and indigenous thought in particular, the course will reflect on how colonialism and global capitalism have contributed to climate change.
Fulfills: SOSC and D in LS Core.