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Apr 23, 2024
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POLI136 PO - Environmental Justice and Public PolicyWhen Offered: Spring 2019.
Instructor(s): R. Worthington.
Credit: 1
This course examines the political-economic context of environmental justice and public policies that aim to improve it. Topics include movements that have come at environmental issues from a social justice perspective, theories and evidence about these movements, and their role in the policy system. In the first half of the course the origins and evolution of the environmental justice movement are examined with special emphasis on California, which is at the forefront of EJ developments nationally. The last half of the course will be conducted as a policy clinic in collaboration with an environmental justice organization. Past collaborators have included Communities for a Better Environment, Labor/Community Strategy Center, and Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: EA 010 PO or POLI003 PO or PPA 001 PO or STS 001 PO. Previously offered as POLI039 PO.
This course has been revised for spring 2017.
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
Area 2; Analyzing Difference
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