Ethnic Studies (ES) |
104 Alder Building, 541-346-0900
College of Arts & Sciences
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U - Some or all of the seats in this section are reserved for students in Freshman Interest Groups (FIG) or Academic Residential Communities (ARC)
b - Pre-reqs: ES 101 OR any one of these ES 250, ES 252, ES 254, ES 256, ES 258
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Academic Deadlines
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Last day to: |
| March 29: |
Process a complete drop (100% refund, no W recorded) |
| April 4: |
Drop this course (100% refund, no W recorded; after this date, W's are recorded) |
| April 4: |
Process a complete drop (90% refund, no W recorded; after this date, W's are recorded) |
| April 5: |
Process a complete withdrawal (90% refund, W recorded) |
| April 5: |
Withdraw from this course (100% refund, W recorded) |
| April 6: |
Add this course |
| April 8: |
Last day to change to or from audit |
| April 12: |
Process a complete withdrawal (75% refund, W recorded) |
| April 12: |
Withdraw from this course (75% refund, W recorded) |
| April 19: |
Process a complete withdrawal (50% refund, W recorded) |
| April 19: |
Withdraw from this course (50% refund, W recorded) |
| April 26: |
Process a complete withdrawal (25% refund, W recorded) |
| April 26: |
Withdraw from this course (25% refund, W recorded) |
| May 17: |
Withdraw from this course (0% refund, W recorded) |
| June 3: |
Change grading option for this course |
 | You can't drop your last class using the "Add/Drop" menu in DuckWeb. Go to the “Completely Withdraw from Term/University” link to begin the complete withdrawal process. If you need assistance with a complete drop or a complete withdrawal, please contact the Office of Academic Advising, 101 Oregon Hall, 541-346-3211 (8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday). If you are attempting to completely withdraw after business hours, and have difficulty, please contact the Office of Academic Advising the next business day. |
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Expanded Course Description
| Environmental justice is a field of scholarship and an organizing framework that links power, justice, and inequality to environmental issues. This course explores environmental justice, including its political and scholarly roots, and its relationship to social structures, including capitalism, colonization, and white supremacy. Environmental justice’s point of departure is the belief that social inequalities are embedded in the environment. For example, pollution may be unevenly distributed among racially unequal populations.
Daily headlines include stories of contaminated water in Flint Michigan; drought in the southwest; Native peoples challenging oil pipelines; and the immoral geography of global warming, in which those suffering most bear the least responsibility for the problem. In addition, we are also contending with political and economic crises. Our task is to understand how these various forces intersect to create environmental inequities, how activists have responded to them, the movements they have built, and future challenges and opportunities. While environmental injustice can occur along any axis of difference and power, we will focus on race, economic inequality, and colonization.
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