SOCY 1500 Global Perspectives on Climate Justice
Climate change, driven by human activities like carbon emissions and deforestation, disproportionately impacts marginalized groups and international communities, raising crucial issues of climate justice. This course centers on integrating social justice into climate change and broader environmental discussions, examining the unequal distribution of environmental hazards and ethical questions of responsibility and justice. Emphasizing the intersectionality of climate justice, students will explore how race, class, gender, and other social factors intersect to exacerbate environmental inequalities. This course encourages critical engagement with and personal reflection, covering topics, such as the science behind climate change, the roles that social, political, and economic conditions play in understanding climate justice, and the different sociological insights and understandings of climate and environmental justice.
Course overview
- Department
- Sociology
- School
- MCAS
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Offered
- Annually
Catalog details
- Satisfies core
- Cultural Diversity,Social Science
Requirements fulfilled
- Environmental Studies: Concentration — Environmental Justice and Policy: One International Studies Course (Current University Catalog; students should confirm their catalog year)
- International Studies: Concentration: Cooperation and Conflict – approved courses (six courses in one concentration) (Current University Catalog; students should confirm their catalog year)
- International Studies: Concentration: Ethics and Social Justice – approved courses (six courses in one concentration) (Current University Catalog; students should confirm their catalog year)
- International Studies: Concentration: Global Cultures – Cultures and Social Movements cluster (six courses; electives must come from one cluster) (Current University Catalog; students should confirm their catalog year)
- Applied Psychology and Human Development: Major electives — any Psychology (PSYC) or Sociology (SOCY) course (no more than two electives from outside LSEHD) (Current University Catalog; students should confirm their catalog year)
- Sociology: Sociology electives (18 credits, generally six courses) (Current University Catalog; students should confirm their catalog year)
- University Core: Cultural Diversity (All undergraduates)
- University Core: Social Science (All undergraduates)
Course evaluations
- Course rating
- 3.74 / 5 · Very Good
- Instructor rating
- 3.69 / 5 · Very Good
- Terms evaluated
- 4
| Term | Instructor | Course overall | Instructor overall | Well organized | Clear learning objectives | Intellectually challenging | Helpful assignments | Applicable beyond course | Attendance necessary | Weekly effort | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer 2025 | Eunyque Sykes | 4.3 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4–6 hrs/week | 4 of 6 |
| Spring 2025 | Eunyque Sykes | 3.8 | 3.7 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 1–3 hrs/week | 22 of 30 |
| Fall 2024 | Eunyque Sykes | 3.5 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 1–3 hrs/week | 24 of 30 |
| Summer 2024 | Eunyque Sykes | 4.6 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 5.0 | 4.0 | — | 5 of 11 |