Transcript title

Environmental Activism

Credits

3

Grading mode

Standard letter grades

Total contact hours

30

Lecture hours

30

Recommended preparation

WR 121Z.

Course Description

Explores how many of our social policies, laws, norms, and habits impact the conditions necessary for healthy and flourishing living. Students will develop their democratic voices, design civic engagement projects, and act upon those projects in an effort to improve the integrity, stability, and beauty of our local environments.

Course learning outcomes

1. Recognize and respond to dysfunctional and flourishing aspects of liberal democratic societies.
2. Identify and explain publicly available evidence related to environmental ethics.
3. Source and interpret materials that build a genealogy of distinct social dilemmas.
4. Create and implement civic engagement plans that strengthen and sustain communities.
5. Sustainability Outcome: Analyze the major environmental, social, and economic challenges and potential solutions of our time using a systems thinking approach.

Content outline

1. Liberalism
2. Democracy
3. Environmental Ethics
4. Ethical Problems
5. Genealogical Research
6. Ethnographic Research
7. Data Analysis
8. Civic Engagement

Required materials

None.

General education/Related instruction lists

• Cultural Literacy
• Arts and Letters