SW220 - Environmental Justice in the SW

Conflicts and commonalities between practicing environmentalists (pastoral cultures of New Mexico and southern Colorado) and card-carrying environmentalists. Course topics include historic, economic, and social origins of conflicts between these rural cultures and urban environmentalists and today's response by pastoral cultures to re-create equitable economies that sustain environment and culture. Field trip to New Mexico and southern Colorado. (Meets the Critical Perspective Requirement.) Writing emphasis. May meet either the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures or Social Inequality requirement. Meets the Equity and Power: EPUS requirement. Meets the Writing Intensive requirement.

Degree requirement — Equity and Power: EPUS, Writing Intensive

1 unit — Roybal

Offerings

Term Block Title Instructor Location Student Limit/Available Updated
Spring 2025 Block 7 Environmental Justice in the SW Karen Roybal TBA 12 / 0 12/22/2024
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