POSC 344 - Environmental Politics

Description:
Introduces contemporary environmental problems and politics. Activities and projects enable students to examine how political systems, institutions, policy processes, movements, perceptions of the environment, and power account for outcomes in environmental policy, administration, and development. Course will not have an established scheduling pattern.

Credits: (5)

Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Recognize and identify roles of political systems and institutions, policy processes, movements, and relations of power in creating outcomes observed in environmental policymaking and public administration
Examine and describe environmental problems and related ecological processes that pose challenges to sustainable development that must be addressed by political and policy processes
Examine contemporary political conflicts and debates related to a particular environmental problem and appraise how these are informed (or not) by research findings on dimensions of the environmental problem
Apply models from public policy and the social sciences to assess how relations of power influence the efficacy of solving environmental problems and addressing challenges to sustainable development
Formulate and propose political and policy solutions to a particular contemporary environmental problem

Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
12/21/17