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Course Info for AMST - 200 - 01, Fall 2024
Class number: 3371 Title: Environmental Movements Department: American Studies
Career: Undergraduate Component: Lecture Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 25 Current enrollment: 9 Available seats: 16
Start date: Tuesday, September 3, 2024 End date: Wednesday, December 18, 2024 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM, SH - S204 Instructor(s): Hussain, Shaznene
Prerequisite(s): None
Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement
Note: 2 seats reserved for first-year students.
Course Description:
This course critically examines the histories, development, and contemporary work of environmental movements in the United States. Utilizing a combination of primary and secondary texts in connection with multiple movements, ranging from conservation and sustainability movements to environmental justice movements, the course will explore the variety of issues, goals, and methods movements have pursued as well as the connections, interactions, and relations of power between different environmental movements.