Sociology 375 - E nvironmental Movements

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St Lawrence University

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Environmental concerns have generated diverse social movements and organizations, both domestically and globally. These range widely from conservation to deep ecology, from preservationism to environmental justice, from animal rights to anti-nuclear, from labor struggles to indigenism, from anti-corporate globalization to wise-use movements, from the neo-Luddites to the ecological modernizationists. This seminar explores the social origins and impacts of these distinct movements and organizations with emphasis on their conflicting and converging goals, tactics, strategies, ideologies and constituencies. The class will develop, design, implement and analyze an environmental political action whose focus, goals and tactics will be determined by the students. Also offered as Environmental Studies 375 and through Global Studies.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.stlawu.edu

Phone Number:

(315) 229-5011

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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