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Explores the intersection of cities and the environment through the emerging field of urban environmental studies. Focuses on varied and often contested efforts at "urban sustainability" in recent history. Draws on literatures in environmental history, environmental and urban sociology, geography, political ecology, and cultural studies.

Enrollment is restricted to junior and senior majors, proposed majors, and minors in sociology, community studies, global information and social enterprise, and Latin American studies/sociology combined.

All Students - restrictions lifted in summer. This course covers a wide range of topics, including the rise of environmental movements in cities during the Industrial Revolution, how the colonial theft of indigenous lands in North America led to environmental devastation, and how environmental problems, like toxic pollution of land and water, disproportionately impact urban communities of color today.

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