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Fall 2025 Lecture JEDIBehavioral/Social SciencesUpper Division
This course introduces students to the interplay between human societies and environmental problems. The most challenging environmental problems we face are rooted in human activities. Why do some environmental problems come to be viewed as problems and others do not? How did environmental problems come to be viewed differently by different social groups? How do we motivate the necessary social support to address these problems? Answers to these kinds of questions and others are what we will consider in this class.
Learning Outcomes1Develop students' ability to summarize (in both oral and written form) the key cultural and structural forces that shape how individuals view environmental problems and their solutions.
2Develop their ability to engage in in-class discussions of the assigned readings in a way that contributes to everyone's understanding of the material.
3Synthesize what they have learned from over the course to answer a novel question about the society-environment relationship.
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