Values and the Environment

The Values and the Environment concentration enables students to explore the ethical, legal, social and historical frameworks that have shaped and are shaping urban, agricultural, and natural or quasi-natural environments, as well as the cell-based bodies of plants, animals, fungi and microbes. Students will also focus on economic and health inequalities of human societies created by state forms, market arrangements, and historically-embedded caste systems.

Faculty Advisor:

L. Perini (Philosophy)

Affiliated Faculty:

H. Williams (Politics)

J. Tannenbaum (Philosophy)

Course Requirements (10 Courses):

Students must complete the core courses, EA 010 PO  or EA 010 PZ , EA 020 PO , and EA 030 PO  or EA 030E PO  and one senior capstone course (EA 190 PO  or EA 191 PO ). Students must also take the following:

Three from:

• EA099 PO - Introduction to Urban Health Equity: Uncovering Local and Global Disparities  
• EA101 PO - Just ! GIS: Introduction to an Ecological and Social Oriented Geographic Information Systems  
• EA174 HM - Building Los Angeles 
• PHIL037 PO - Values and the Environment   
• PHIL038 PO - Medical Ethics   
• PHIL057 JT - Philosophy of Technology: Our Technologies, Ourselves   
• PHIL103 PO - Philosophy of Science: Historical Survey  or PHIL104 PO - Philosophy of Science: Topical Survey  
• PHIL190 CM - Science, Values, and Democracy  
• STS010 HM - Introduction to Science, Technology and Society  

Three from:

• ANTH012 PZ - Native Americans and Their Environments  
• ANTH144 PO - Anthropology of Environmental Justice  
• ARHI179 PO - Modern Architecture, City, Landscape and Sustainability  
• EA171 PO - Water in the West  
• EA189F PO - California Beaches  
• EA189M PO - Desert Conservation Field Seminar  
• ECON052 PO - Principles: Microeconomics  
• ECON127 PO - Environmental Economics  or ECON172 PZ - Environmental Economics  
• ECON128 PO - Energy Economics and Policy   
• HIST016 PZ - Environmental History  
• HIST068 CM - Disasters in the Ancient Mediterranean  
• HIST096 CM - The Amazon  
• HIST101ACPO - Dark Ecologies  
• HIST101E PO - Science and Empire  
• HIST101F PO - Food and the Environment in Asia and the Pacific  
• HIST112 PZ - Energy and Humanity: Past, Present, Future  
• HIST118 PO - Native American History  or HIST120 CM - Native American History  
• HIST184 PO - Global Environmental Histories  
• PPA001 PO - Introduction to Public Policy Analysis  
• POLI060 PO - The Global Politics of Food and Agriculture  
• POLI061 PO - The Global Politics of Water  
• POLI071 PO - NGOs and Transnational Politics  
• POLI159 PO - Diversity and Democracy  
• POST114 HM - Comparative Environmental Politics
• POST140 HM - Global Environmental Politics  
• SOC075 PO - Social and Political Movements  
• SOC122 PZ - Sociology of Health and Medicine  
• SOC124 PZ - Race, Place and Space    
• STS124S HM - U.S. Science and Technology Policy ​ 

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