Fall 2024 Population and Family Health P8645 section 001

Environmental Justice Advocacy

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Call Number 15779
Day & Time
Location
R 8:30am-11:20am
HESS ROSENFIELD B
Points 1.5
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Yolande A Cadore
Type LECTURE
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description In this course, students will learn about the disproportionate burdens of environmental contamination and resultant health disparities affecting marginalized communities across the United States and globally. The curriculum will explore the ways in which the environmental justice movement in the US has succeeded in implementing just forms of health research, progressive environmental health policies, and protections from racial/cultural injustice, as well as obstacles, policy impediments and potential paths forward. We will examine environmental health/justice theories and perspectives in the contexts of health impacts on various populations, including American communities of color and the socioeconomically disadvantaged, indigenous peoples, women and children. We will study climate change, natural disasters, urban pollution and segregation, extractive industries, and environmental sustainability. Students will be asked to critically examine these topics and also explore unresolved, chronic problems relating to environmental injustices and their health impacts.
Web Site Vergil
Department Population and Family Health
Enrollment 18 students (30 max) as of 9:06AM Saturday, December 14, 2024
Subject Population and Family Health
Number P8645
Section 001
Division School of Public Health
Open To GSAS, Public Health
Section key 20243POPF8645P001