SWREN 412R - Environmental Justice and Community Action

Social workers are being called upon to centralize land and incorporate environmental well-being and healing into structural and systemic practices and considerations of social justice. Throughout this course, you will explore and share ideas about what environmental justice can mean to a social worker. Shared considerations of environmental justice will be related to health inequity and social determinants of health, environmental racism, white supremacy, pollution as colonial violence, environmental intersectionality, activism, and how this impacts local and global communities. You will develop social work practice skills related to decolonizing approaches, activism, strength-focused healing, intergenerational trauma responses, and land-centered critical thinking and healing.