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| SOC S4300 - Environmental Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course introduces students to diverse sociological understandings of how social organizations impact environments, and how environments impact social environments. Topics covered include how interest groups mobilize resources to pursue an agenda of societal protection or restoration, how demographics, belief systems and patterns of social organization break down or pollute the environment, environmental racism, North South tensions over population and consumption, development and limits to growth. Globalization and social change toward sustainability will be explored in relation to planetary boundaries. Typically offered Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne Learning Outcomes: 1. Appreciate and utilize a broad array of diverse perspectives that explore how culture and various social institutions impact the environment and vice versa. 2. Critically appraise demographic and social information and data and acquaints students with important processes associated with the co-evolution of societies and their environments. |
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