GEOG 146Environmental Justice and Climate Change
Geography · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Designed for juniors/seniors. Examination of environmental quality and social justice. Premise that all people have right to live in clean environment and access resources to sustain health and livelihood. Investigation of under what conditions some people are denied this basic right and how some have fought back. Consideration of how certain groups of people experience effects of pollution or environmental hazards more than others, or lack basic resources; what social relations of production and power that contribute to these outcomes are; and how people have organized to demand environmental justice.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
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.