SOC 295-01 - Special Topic: Environmental Health

4 credits (Spring)

Exposure to toxics, impending climate disasters, and questions about food safety are ordinary parts of living in the contemporary world. We live in what Ulrich Beck calls a “risk society” where eco-social risk is part of the everyday experience often operating invisibly in the background until some spectacular event; a storm, a cancer cluster, an outbreak brings these issues into public consciousness. This class will examine how societies create, maintain, and respond to these threats to human and ecological health.

Prerequisite: SOC 111.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Bacon