Values and the Environment
The Values and the Environment concentration enables students to explore the ethical, legal, social and historical frameworks that have shaped and are shaping urban, agricultural, and natural or quasi-natural environments, as well as the cell-based bodies of plants, animals, fungi and microbes. Students will also focus on economic and health inequalities of human societies created by state forms, market arrangements, and historically-embedded caste systems.
Faculty Advisor:
L. Perini (Philosophy)
Affiliated Faculty:
H. Williams (Politics)
J. Tannenbaum (Philosophy)
Course Requirements (10 Courses):
Students must complete the core courses, course or EA 010 PZ, course, and course or course and one senior capstone course (course or course). Students must also take the following:
Three from:
course - Introduction to Urban Health Equity: Uncovering Local and Global Disparities
course - Just ! GIS: Introduction to an Ecological and Social Oriented Geographic Information Systems
EA174 HM - Building Los Angeles
course - Values and the Environment
course - Medical Ethics
course - Philosophy of Technology: Our Technologies, Ourselves
course - Philosophy of Science: Historical Survey or course - Philosophy of Science: Topical Survey
PHIL190 CM - Science, Values, and Democracy
STS010 HM - Introduction to Science, Technology and Society
Three from:
ANTH012 PZ - Native Americans and Their Environments
course - Anthropology of Environmental Justice
course - Modern Architecture, City, Landscape and Sustainability
course - Water in the West
course - California Beaches
course - Desert Conservation Field Seminar
course - Principles: Microeconomics
course - Environmental Economics or ECON172 PZ - Environmental Economics
course - Energy Economics and Policy
HIST016 PZ - Environmental History
HIST068 CM - Disasters in the Ancient Mediterranean
HIST096 CM - The Amazon
course - Dark Ecologies
course - Science and Empire
course - Food and the Environment in Asia and the Pacific
HIST112 PZ - Energy and Humanity: Past, Present, Future
course - Native American History or HIST120 CM - Native American History
course - Global Environmental Histories
course - Introduction to Public Policy Analysis
course - The Global Politics of Food and Agriculture
course - The Global Politics of Water
course - NGOs and Transnational Politics
course - Diversity and Democracy
POST114 HM - Comparative Environmental Politics
POST140 HM - Global Environmental Politics
course - Social and Political Movements
SOC122 PZ - Sociology of Health and Medicine
SOC124 PZ - Race, Place and Space
STS124S HM - U.S. Science and Technology Policy​