Motivation for Teaching Social Action:
I am teaching a new 10-week course on Movements and Advocacy for Environmental Justice & Health Equity in spring quarter (March 31-June 6) and would like to include some sort of experiential assignment in the class.
Course Description:
An overview of contemporary, comparative, and historical research on social and political movements. Includes legal and policy advocacy, health equity, sustainability, and environmental justice. Examines the motivations, visions and contexts shaping these movements. Also examines movement and advocacy outcomes, challenges, and opportunities for promoting health equity and environmental justice.
Movements and Advocacy For Social Change in Environmental Justice and Health Equity (4 Lecture, 3 hours; research, 1 hour; individual study, 1 hour; written work, 1 hour.)
Prerequisite(s) for SEHE 106: restricted to class level standing of junior, or senior; or consent of instructor.
Taught By:
Ellen Reese
Professor
Society, Environment, & Health Equity Department
University of California, Riverside
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