AASHE Campus Sustainability Hub

Program Goals:

• Explore sustainability through an environmental justice lens.

• Introduce students to both the environmental humanities and the environmental sciences, developing a transdisciplinary approach to solving sustainability problems.

• Provide different cultural perspectives on human identity, and the way these views shape our environmental, social, and economic relations.

• Encourage students’ awareness of their social, economic, and environmental behaviors and how they can promote sustainable justice in their personal and professional lives.

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.

• 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.

• Apply concepts of sustainable justice to enhance inclusive well-being across human-human and human-environment relations.

• Link: Sustainable Justice Minor