VTPEH 6176

Public Health and Environmental Justice: Insights from Critical Humanities

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

In this round-table graduate seminar, we will critically engage with cross-cutting topics in health and environmental justice through interdisciplinary humanities lenses including political ecology, science and technology studies, feminist studies, environmental governance, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, history, and ethics. We will dive deep in discussions of weekly readings spanning these fields, in addition to grey literature, podcasts, and videos. Students co-facilitate discussions tying contemporary news to course themes that span nature and land, scientific knowledge, race and human classification, climate change and natural disaster, microbes and disease, multispecies perspectives, expertise and public engagement, bodies and built environments, world ecologies and capital, food and water system transformations, and more. Students also build toward an advocacy paper, written for a professional audience on a topic of interest.

Enrollment Priority Enrollment limited to: MPH and graduate students, or permission of instructor.

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2024SP

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