ANTH 3255 - Climate Change and Marginalized Communities

This course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the major themes of modern climate change impacts and understanding its influence on marginalized communities. This course explores anthropological approaches to understanding how individual racial and cultural backgrounds and other systemic issues have influences access to clean and basic environmental resources. Racially and socioeconomically marginalized communities experience greater impacts from natural disasters and uneven policies especially where their experiences and voices are lacking from environmentalism movement. Students in this course will read about, research and explore the consequences that exclusivity has fostered, and the consequences caused by our contemporary environmental and social problems. This course satisfies WMU Essential Studies Level 2: Exploration and Discovery – Societies and Cultures Category. This course also meets the Diversity and Inclusion student learning outcome.

Credits: 3 hours