POLS 1141 - Introduction To Environmental Politics
3 Credits
Requires you to critically consider and address the history, organizations, interest groups, and processes that shape domestic and global environmental issues. The course will focus primarily on the following areas of study: (1) political and policy processes, (2) the public lands debate, (3) the politics of waste and toxins, (4) the politics of energy, (5) the politics of water, (6) the politics of air quality, (7) the politics of endangered species and biodiversity, (8) the politics of global environmental issues, (9) the politics of human population growth, and (10) the politics of environmental sustainability. Using cutting-edge social scientific theory and research, you will be asked to examine your own political values, experiences and behavior regarding contemporary environmental problems and potential solutions.
Major Content Areas
Critical analysis of contemporary environmental problems and potential solutions: 25% Environmental politics and public policy-related policies and institutions/organizations: 25% Environmental politics and public policy-related social science theory: 25% Study of contemporary environmental issues: 25%
Learning Outcomes
Demonstrate understanding of contemporary environmental problems and potential solutions Participate in civic engagement project related to an environmental policy-related organization or issue Identify and demonstrate understanding of environmental politics and public policy-related concepts/theories Analyze project, drawing on key concepts/theories
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MNTC) Goals
10 - People/Environment 05 - Hist/Soc/Behav Sci
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