ENVIRON 168Environmental Justice: Theory and Action
Environment · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Examination of environmental justice (EJ) as a term describing the right of racialized and low-income communities to be protected from disproportionate exposure to hazards. Discussion of spread of EJ concerns, including climate justice, and EJ advocacy expansion to envisioning and building new socioecological relations. Exploration of complex intersections—including race, indigeneity, class, gender, sexuality, disability, and nation—as interlocking positions that shape vulnerabilities to environmental harm as well as the emergence of multispecies relations as an EJ concern.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.