LAWG 773 - Environmental Justice Seminar

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Course Description

This course explores the foundations, tenets and practices of the environmental justice movement, with its focus on centering and addressing the needs of people and communities that bear disproportionate environmental burdens. Although we will explore case law as appropriate, much of the course focuses on the ways that this social movement has necessarily deviated from a judicial-centered notion of justice. The course will include examinations of the history and theory of environmental justice in the United States, its application to a range of case studies, and its intersections with other emerging fields of justice studies—including climate change justice, energy justice, and food justice. We will pay particular attention to the ways that race, ethnicity, and class have shaped the challenges, tools, and politics of environmental justice.GC: 04/22/2024.

College	LS - Joseph F. Rice School of Law
Level	Undergraduate
Section	001
Instructional Method	DWEB 100 Pct Web Asynchronous
CRN	30667
Restrictions	CAMPUSICOL - USC Columbia LEVELIGR - Graduate

Information is accurate as of July 24, 2025 (Subject to change)

Special Fee Notification

Students may be required to be proctored during online test completion. If students are unable to attend test proctoring sessions in person at the Distributed Learning office, additional fees may apply for online test proctoring if the course requires online testing.