ENVSC 427 - Culture, Power, Environment

Credits: 4
An interdisciplinary study of nature-society interactions focused on race, ethnicity, and power. In this reading-intensive, discussion-based seminar course, students learn about the tenuous, constructed, eroding boundaries between “nature” and “culture”. The focus is on the relationship between environmental, sociocultural, economic, and political changes and processes. Course materials draw on ethnographic research at the intersections of nature, culture, and power to examine topics such as the human dimensions of natural resource management, local environmental knowledge, sustainable livelihoods, and environmental social movements in relation to local and global processes. Students will gain a deeper understanding of environmental social science research, including its methodologies.

 

Prerequisite: ENVSC 110 , FSGHS 201 , or WGSS 100  

Distribution Requirements: IP, PD.