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)
- University Core: Cultural Diversity (All undergraduates)
- University Core: Social Science (All undergraduates)
Official evaluation summary
Data freshness
Instructors
- Eunyque Sykes
Sections
- Section 01
- Section 01