From the Program on the Environment:
The new Minor in Sustainability and Environmental Justice (SEJ) has been approved and open to all majors with ENVIR 200 serving as the initial core requirement. For additional details on this interdisciplinary minor learning experience including options for completing capstone requirement please visit here https://envstudies.uw.edu/students/minor-in-sustainability-and-environmental-justice/.
ENVIR 200 SLN 14919 Sustainability and Environmental Justice (5) SSc, DIV
T/TH, 2:30 - 4:20pm in SIG 134
Explore sustainability and environmental justice as responses to social and environmental challenges. Investigate the disproportionate impacts of environmental harm, and how solutions can exacerbate inequalities. Critically evaluate synergies and tensions between sustainability and justice, considering how different perspectives inform pathways toward a more just and sustainable future. This version of the course focuses on visions of Earth’s future, and the challenges of reconciling planetary scale with lived experience.