Professor
Herb Wang, Geology and Geophysics Department (wang@geology.wisc.edu)
Lecturer,
Maria Powell (powell@wisc.edu)
This
introductory course to issues involved in environmental justice (EJ) is based
on readings, field trips, videos, personal reflection, lectures, and discussion.
Each week you will write an analysis (5-6
pp) considering and synthesizing what you have read, seen, and heard. This summary-review-analysis-critique
should include all of the readings, videos, speakers, and field trips of the
previous week, and is due on the following Monday.
In
addition, you will work individually or in pairs on a final project or term
paper, which will be presented to the class on the
final day of the course. Ideas for topics and formats are suggested below.
Your
grade will be based in fairly equal parts on your weekly written analyses, your
participation and engagement in class/field trips, and your final
project/presentation.
In
class on Monday 6/27, everyone will present their project ideas – so we can
prevent redundancy and you can move forward with an approved topic and format.
Final
Projects for this course should develop further environmental justice topics
and concepts – leaving a wide range of possibilities.
You
can consider a variety of formats as well: research papers, PowerPoint or
overhead presentations, videos, photo essays, interviews, web page content,
curriculum pieces and classroom activities, performances…
We
encourage you to consider a project that provides a service or accomplishes a
needed activity for one of the organizations we visit, a school, or another
entity of your choosing.
Whether
you work individually or with someone else, each student will hand in a
“journal” kept during the process of your project, with notes, ideas,
reflections, and so forth. This can be turned in as a rough copy, in addition
to the final project.
NOTE:
Students who are taking this course for Biological Sciences credit will be
required to do a project that qualifies as “Biology” based on consultation with
Herb. Also, you are expected to take the course for 3 credits, even
though it is listed as variable credit between 1 and 3. You must consult
Herb for an exception.
Our
travel days are June 21, June 23, June 28-29 (overnight in
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Course Packet (available for purchase at Bob’s Copy Shop at
Introduction
to the course, each other, logistics
What
is Environmental Justice?
17
Principles of Environmental Justice
Toxic
Racism (video)
Power
of an Illusion (video)
Poisoned
Promise of Altgeld Gardens (video)
Tonight
Read: (Wk number in parentheses refers to section in reading packet)
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Sewage treatment
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Landfill
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Power plant
Tonight
Read:
Laid to Waste (video)
Export
of Harm (video)
Tonight
Read:
Leave
16th
- Clinic Tour
- Environmental Health services and projects
- Brownfields Redevelopment sites tour
Tonight
Read:
Al
Gedicks - UW-Lacrosse
Professor of Sociology
Tonight
Read:
Leave
Introduction
to People for Community Recovery (PCR) and
Lunch
PCR
Toxic Tour (Lake Calumet/Altgeld Gardens/SE Chicago
area maps in Course Packet)
Tour
Calumet Area Ecological Management site with EPA Cluster Sites Manager, Kyle
Rogers
Dinner
Lodging
(not finalized)
Breakfast
Activities
To Be Determined -
Leave
Tonight
Read:
Visiting
speaker, Colleen Moore – UW-Madison Professor of Psychology
Green
(video)
Assignments
Due (covering June 21-June 24)
Share
final project ideas
Tonight
Read:
Assignments
Due (covering June 28-July 1)
Departure
time to be determined
Glatfelter
Paper Mill Tour,
Little
Clean
Water Action/Fox River Watch,
Tonight
Read:
Barbara
Allen. “Debating Economics: Corporate Myths and Local
Realities,” 51-79. (Wk 7)
Final Assignments Due (covering July 5-6)
today or Monday, July 11.