SOCL 1246 — Environment and Society

4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath DDNUpath SIusually offered: fall, springtypical days: T/FBostonOakland, CATraditional

Examines the social, political, and economic forces behind the global environmental crisis. Topics include such issues as global warming and climate disruption, world resource availability and the global economic crisis, environmental justice and social inequities in the exposure to ecological hazards, science and technology, environmental degradation in the Third World, globalization and unfair trade, state power and the role of the polluter-industrial complex in the United States, the history of the environmental movement, and exemplary environmental policies and programs. This theoretically oriented course also involves practical experience in environmental problem solving.

Offering history

TermSectionsEnrolledCapacityFullOpen seats/section
Fall 202316910069%31.0
Spring 202419510095%5.0
Fall 2024211511997%2.0
Spring 2025210712586%9.0
Fall 2025211411996%2.5
Spring 202629811982%10.5

Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.

Meeting times

Share of recent sections by weekday: M 7% · T 64% · W 36% · Th 0% · F 80%

Common patterns: TF (64% of sections), WF (16% of sections), W (13% of sections), MW (7% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

Professors

Fall

Spring

Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.

Unlocks

ANTH 2485, ENVR 3150, SOCL 2485, SOCL 4522

Courses that list SOCL 1246 in their prerequisites.

Links

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