Sustainable Justice Minor
University of Wisconsin-River Falls
Description
Program Goals:
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Explore sustainability through an environmental justice lens.
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Introduce students to both the environmental humanities and the environmental sciences, developing a transdisciplinary approach to solving sustainability problems.
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Provide different cultural perspectives on human identity, and the way these views shape our environmental, social, and economic relations.
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Encourage students’ awareness of their social, economic, and environmental behaviors and how they can promote sustainable justice in their personal and professional lives.
Learning Outcomes
**Students will be able to: ** * Recognize the interrelated nature of social, economic, and environmental issues as manifested across differences of race, class, gender, sexuality, species, and place.
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Work with interdisciplinary teams to analyze and envision solutions to eco-justice problems, utilizing knowledge from the environmental humanities and sciences as well as from diverse human communities.
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Apply concepts of sustainable justice to enhance inclusive well-being across human-human and human-environment relations.