SOCL 4522 — Environmental Justice

4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath SINUpath WIusually offered: fallBostonOnlineOnlineTraditional

Offers students an opportunity to engage in advanced social science research on topics relating to environmental justice, citizen science, and environmental health. Examines various environmental justice topics with the goal of producing a research project or paper. Case studies examined include the impacts of toxic waste dumping on human health and the environment, the role of global climate change in creating new waves of migration around the world, the rise of the Slow Food movement, and the relationship between environmental and data justice. Studies how to redesign research methods, tools, and processes to support environmental justice.

Prerequisites

all of:
- one of:
  - ANTH 1101 (min D-)
  - SOCM 103M
  - CRIM 1100 (min D-)
  - PHR 107M
  - HUSV 1101 (min D-)
  - SW 105M
  - HUSV 2400 (min D-)
  - HUSV 2401 (min D-)
  - ENVR 2401 (min D-)
  - INTL 1101 (min D-)
  - ISM 118M
  - PHIL 1180 (min D-)
  - POLS 1140 (min D-)
  - POLS 1160 (min D-)
  - ISM 116M
  - SOCL 1101 (min D-)
  - PHR 101M
  - SOCL 1246 (min D-)
  - WMNS 1103 (min D-)
- one of:
  - ENGL 1102 (min C)
  - ENGL 1111 (min C)
  - ENGW 1102 (min C)
  - ENGW 1111 (min C)
  - WRIT 201M
  - ENGW 1113 (min C)
  - ENGW 1114 (min C)

Offering history

Term	Sections	Enrolled	Capacity	Full	Open seats/section
Summer B 2023	1	26	30	87%	4.0
Fall 2023	1	31	31	100%	0.0
Summer B 2024	1	25	30	83%	5.0
Spring 2025	1	43	49	88%	6.0
Summer A 2025	1	28	30	93%	2.0
Fall 2025	1	25	49	51%	24.0

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 0% · T 38% · W 0% · Th 17% · F 38%

Common patterns: async (44% of sections), TF (38% of sections), R (17% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

Professors

Fall

Daniel Faber (100% of students) · reviews

Spring

Daniel Faber (100% of students) · reviews

Summer A

Grace Poudrier (100% of students) · reviews

Summer B

Benjamin Levy (100% of students) · reviews

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

Links

Official catalog (SOCL course descriptions) · Student reviews on RateMyHusky · All SOCL courses · Plan it at numap.app