
This course adopts a service-learning approach to examine how environmental sustainability can be achieved in a fair, just, and equitable manner through impactful community service. By applying the environmental justice framework, students will examine how social inequalities influence the processes and outcomes of sustainable development. The focus of student service will be on making an impact in one of the four dimensions of environmental justice: identifying distributional issues related to environmental impact, recognizing the environmental needs and voices of communities, fostering community participation in sustainability-promoting activities, and developing community capabilities for environmental resilience and sustainable growth. Students will be guided to initiate service-learning projects that address social-environmental issues.