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POLI136 PO - Environmental Justice and Public Policy

When Offered: Spring 2020.
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 and campaigns that have engaged environmental problems as a social justice issue, their role in the policy system, and the challenges and successes they have experienced. Environmental justice will be examined from local through global levels, with primary emphasis on California. Much of the course will be conducted as a policy clinic in collaboration with an organization involved in EJ issues. 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 POLI 003 PO  or PPA 001 PO  or STS001  PO. Previously offered as POLI039 PO.
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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