GC 544 - Gender and Environment

Offered Fall: No Offered Winter: No Offered Summer: No Offered Other: Every other year

Credits: 4
Hours (Lecture/Discussion/Lab): 4-0-0
Graded: A/F

Prerequisites: Graduate standing.
Co-requisites: None

This graduate-level course explores gender and the environment from an intersectional perspective. Through case studies ranging from the local to the global scale, we will discuss power, politics, identities, inequalities, social movements and ecological crises. Building upon critical debates and theoretical frameworks from the fields of political ecology, feminist geography, gender and women’s studies, ecological anthropology and environmental sociology, this course strives to engender your analytical and creative abilities to solve gender-based environmental problems at the local scale. In the process, we will further develop professional skill-sets that include communications, writing, programming, design, debate, research and public speaking.