Environmental justice (EJ) refers to the right to a safe and healthy environment for everyone, regardless of race, class, gender, ability or other considerations, as well as a place at decision-making tables. From this perspective, the environment is not separate from society, but includes spaces where people live, work, play, learn and/or pray.
The CU Boulder graduate certificate in environmental justice provides training in the interdisciplinary and dynamic field of environmental justice studies, as well as opportunities for engaged interactions with the challenges and solutions environmental justice communities face today.
The certificate program is open to CU Boulder graduate students from all units and programs, and seeks to include scholars and practitioners from diverse disciplinary and experiential backgrounds in its development.
For more information, visit the Graduate Certificate in Environmental Justice website.
Requirements
Students must complete 12 credits, including the 3-credit pillar course and three approved electives.
Code | Title | Credit Hours |
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Required Course | ||
ENVS/GEOG/PSCI/COMM 7118 | Foundations of Environmental Justice | 3 |
Electives | ||
Choose three of the following: | 9 | |
Environmental Communication (focused on an EJ-related topic such as Toxic Bodies) | ||
Special Topics in Environmental Studies ("Power, Justice and Climate Change" or "Conflict Management and Collaboration for Human-Environment Systems") | ||
Native American and Indigenous Environmental Issues | ||
Topics: Specialized Comparative Studies (Topic: Indigenous Political Ecologies) | ||
Indigenous Thought and Theory: Foundations in NAIS | ||
Seminar: Topics in Economic Geography (Topic: Geographies of Dispossession) | ||
Seminar: Political Ecology | ||
Readings in Environmental History | ||
Environmental Law | ||
Seminar in Environmental Philosophy | ||
Seminar: Selected Political Theories (Topic: Environment and Political Theory) | ||
Foundations of Environmental Sociology | ||
Inequality, Democracy, and the Environment | ||
Total Credit Hours | 12 |