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Apr 28, 2024
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SOC 4810 - Environmental Sociology
Examines the interaction between social systems and the natural ecosystems in which they reside. It considers the predominant cultural, demographic, economic, geographic, political, and social factors that modify and shape the environment and the human ecological footprint. Emphasis is on the prospects for the emergence of sustainable societies and links between environmental issues and conflict, development, globalization, inequality, social change, and social movements among others.
Requisites: 9 Hours in SOC including 1000
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will develop a perspective that can contemplate, discuss, and critically evaluate global environmental change and its consequences.
- Students will recognize the value of a “sociological imagination” and the contributions of sociology for examining the global environment.
- Students will understand how human behavior and social systems cause significant change to ecosystems.
- Students will understand how such modifications are the product of interconnected, cross-national processes tied to globalization.
- Students will understand the controversies surrounding environmental problems, the movements that respond, and actions and policies that address them.
- Students will understand the important theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches in examining and carrying out environmental sociology.
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