PSCI
317
Environmental Law
Fall 2023
Division II
Cross-listed
ENVI 307
/ PSCI 317
Class Details
We rely on environmental laws to make human communities healthier and protect the natural world, while allowing for sustainable economic growth. Yet, despite 40 years of increasingly varied and complex legislation, balancing human needs and environmental quality has never been harder than it is today.
Environmental Studies 307 analyzes the transformation of environmental law from fringe enterprise to fundamental feature of modern political, economic and social life. ENVI 307 also addresses the role of community activism in environmental law, from local battles over proposed industrial facilities to national campaigns for improved corporate citizenship.
By the completion of the semester, students will understand both the successes and failures of modern environmental law and how these laws are being reinvented, through innovations like pollution credit trading and “green product” certification, to confront globalization, climate change and other emerging threats.
The Class:
Format: lecture
Limit: 19
Expected: 19
Class#: 1284
Grading: no pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Limit: 19
Expected: 19
Class#: 1284
Grading: no pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
Several short writing assignments, active participation in class and a final examination
Prerequisites:
ENVI 101 or permission of instructor
Enrollment Preferences:
Preference to Environmental Studies majors and concentrators and sophomores and above.
Distributions:
Division II
Notes:
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ENVI 307 Division II PSCI 317 Division II
ENVI 307 Division II PSCI 317 Division II
Attributes:
AMST Space and Place Electives
ENVI Environmental Policy
EVST Social Science/Policy
JLST Interdepartmental Electives
MAST Interdepartmental Electives
POEC Depth
ENVI Environmental Policy
EVST Social Science/Policy
JLST Interdepartmental Electives
MAST Interdepartmental Electives
POEC Depth
Class Grid
Updated 5:35 pm
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PSCI 317 - 01 (F) LEC Environmental Law
PSCI 317 - 01 (F) LEC Environmental LawDivision IIM 7:00 pm - 9:40 pm
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