Environment, History, Justice

Course Description

Introduces skills for "reading" the dynamic history of places and landscapes. Approaches for investigating and analyzing landscapes anywhere in the world. Methods include landscape literacy, archeology, and archival research. Environmental justice implies that all peoples should share equally in environmental goods, like safe parks, and in environmental harms, such as air pollution. Native American communities, in particular, face specific disproportionate impacts connected to land ownership and spatial justice. Additional work expected of graduate students

Basic Enrollment Requirements: Unofficial Transcript – Bachelor’s Degree or progress towards a Bachelor’s Degree + 3.0 GPA.

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Remission Eligible: Yes; first day of term; all university policies apply.