2023-2024 College Catalog 
    
    May 02, 2024  
2023-2024 College Catalog [***ATTENTION: THIS IS AN ARCHIVED CATALOG***]

POS 233 - Global Environmental Politics


Credits: 3
Lab/Lecture: Three lecture.

International environmental policies, issues and concerns involving environmental ethics, resource use, global environmental divisions, ecological degradation, biodiversity and other global changes.
Course Outcomes:
Students will be able to:
  1. describe and explain components of the different environmental political theories;
  2. describe, examine, and integrate key international relations theories;
  3. .describe, explain, and analyze specific global environmental problems in the context of international politics;
  4. identify continuing and emerging global environmental issues;
  5. summarize and evaluate trends in global environmental politics;
  6. identify effects of power on global environmental politics;
  7. recognize and explain state interests, political economic motives, and global divisions in resource use and other indications of imputed values of nature;
  8. analyze the various arguments concerning environmental policies and practices;
  9. and identify possible pathways to future research.


Prerequisite(s): ENG 102 .
General Education: Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Special Requirement(s): Intensive Writing and Critical Inquiry; Contemporary Global/International Awareness or Historical Awareness.