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ENSC 245 Consuming the Environment Units: 3.00
This course critically explores consumption as a major contributor to climate change and social injustice. The course will emphasize the relationships between consumption and ongoing settler colonialism, environmental racism and gender discrimination.
Learning Hours: 120 (24 Lecture, 12 Tutorial, 84 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite (Level 2 or above) or permission of the School.
Exclusion ENSC 200/3.0.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Understand and be able to communicate through writing how consumption is a Canadian and global social justice issue, involving inclusion, diversity, equity and Indigenous sovereignty issues.
- Critically assess the role and importance of the relations between material and social processes.
- Critical assessments of the ways in which differing theoretical and methodological approaches might be deployed to understand consumption as social justice issues, involving environmental, social, political, economic, and cultural interactions.
- Demonstrate critical thinking and effective communication skills, including through written assignments, addressing the multidisciplinary topic of consumption.