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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Spring 2021 |
Registration ID | SOCLB268001 |
Course Title | Environmental Sustainability |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Environmental Studies |
Instructor | Wright,Nathan Daniel |
Times and Days | WSa 11:10am-12:30pm
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Room Location | DAL300 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1425 This course relates a broadly construed understanding of environmental sustainability to the historical development of the major concepts and developments in sociology. It situates the development of sociology as responding to major social problems in the natural and built environment, and demonstrates how the key theoretical developments and empirical findings of sociology are crucial in understanding how these problems develop, persist, and are addressed or fail to be addressed. Conceptually, it begins with the radical environmental changes at the dawn of modernity that gave rise to European sociology and the massive urban social problems experienced in rapidly changing urban areas that gave rise to American sociology. Empirically, it moves through a series of more contemporary case studies of environmental problems (including both single-event “disasters” and ongoing slowly developing ever-present realities) that demonstrate both the context for sociology’s development and the promise sociology offers in understanding environmental problems. The course will have a global focus drawing on case studies from North America, South America, Europe, Africa, with special attention given to East Asia. Approach: Course does not meet an Approach; Enrollment Cap: 25; If the course exceeds the enrollment cap the following criteria will be used for the lottery: Major/Minor/Concentration; Seniors, Juniors, Sophomores, Freshman |
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