SOC 4311 is also offered in Spring 2025
SOC 4311 is also offered in Fall 2022
SOC 4311 is also offered in Fall 2021
Fall 2019 | SOC 4311 Section 001: Power, Justice & the Environment (33098)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Meets With:
GLOS 4311 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 215
- Enrollment Status:
Open (29 of 38 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course introduces students to the theoretical and historical foundations of environmental racism and environmental inequality more broadly. We will examine and interrogate both the social scientific evidence concerning these phenomena and the efforts by community residents, activists, workers, and governments to combat it. We will consider the social forces that create environmental inequalities so that we may understand their causes, consequences, and the possibilities for achieving environmental justice prereq: SOC 1001 recommended
- Class Notes:
- Click this link for more detailed course information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mgoldman+SOC4311+Fall2019
- Class Description:
- This course focuses on some of the world's most perplexing ecological and social problems, helping students to understand them from a sociological perspective that emphasizes the significance of class, race, gender, and power in the making of these problems. Specifically, we will take a close look at energy, consumption, and production processes that have created the serious climate change position the planet is in, the many institutions of power that help reproduce this complex problem, and the alternative paths taken to remake the world in more ecologically safe and socially just ways. We will explore the roles of scientists, NGOs, regulatory agencies, private firms, and social movements around the world to help us understand how dimensions of this problem have been created, challenged, and potentially resolved.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Someone who is interested in understanding the pressing social and ecological problems of the world, particularly climate change, its causes and solutions, from a sociological perspective that emphasizes power relations.
- Grading:
- 75% Reports/Papers
10% Special Projects
5% In-class Presentations
10% Class Participation
- Class Format:
- 60% Lecture
5% Film/Video
25% Discussion
5% Small Group Activities
3% Student Presentations
2% Guest Speakers
- Workload:
- 60-75 Pages Reading Per Week
25-30 Pages Writing in the form of short papers short in-class presentations
participation in discussion
1 Special Project
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33098/1199
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 4 April 2019
ClassInfo Links - Fall 2019 Sociology Classes