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This
course analyzes the political landscape of environmental activism in the United States,
with particular focus on the role played by interest groups such as Orange Audubon Society and the Central Florida Sierra Club
in leadership and citizenship today. Targeting case studies such as climate
change, air pollution, endangered species protection, energy consumption,
garbage disposal, national parks policy, and suburban sprawl, we ask both why
environmental problems develop and how they might be solved. We look at the various governmental and
non-governmental actors involved in this political process. And we look at the institutions in place
that foster and frustrate environmental activism.
Several
class field trips close to our home in Winter
Park will complement these objectives through
experiential education, allowing students to see for themselves the issues
they have read and discussed in class.
Written critiques will be tied to these experiences. And there is a capstone
international experience at the end of the semester in which we will
travel to the Bahamas
working with Friends of the
Environment on a tidal creek restoration project.
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