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Oct 18, 2024
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Whittier College 2024-2025
Environmental Justice Studies, B.A.
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The Environmental Justice Studies program at Whittier College furthers social and racial justice and values diverse peoples’ cultural relationships and understandings with land, ecologies, and the environment. Our faculty bring interdisciplinary understandings of historical and culturally rooted contemporary ways of being one with nature against environmental colonialism and racism to our educational and local community. Our courses and curriculum decolonize mainstream understandings of environmentalism and investigate the causes and effects of the global climate crisis rooted in racist environmental policies that are disproportionately felt and lived by marginalized peoples. The EJST major also empowers students to seek meaningful and effective redress for environmental harms that disproportionately impact indigenous peoples and low-income and communities of color around the globe.
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Requirements
Complete at least 10 courses from the Environmental Justice Studies (EJST). A minimum of 30 credits total required with at least 12 credits at the 300-level or above.
Electives
- Choose at least one EJST course from Social Science and one from Humanities
Quantitative Reasoning
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Research methods
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Capstone
Any senior seminar in a discipline relevant to the student’s EJST focus.
Off-campus Experience
An internship, travel study course, or work experience integrated with EJST learning outcomes.
Research methods
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