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ENSC 445 Waste Flows: Environmental Studies of Waste Units: 3.00
This course will consider waste as a global human health and environmental crisis that requires interdisciplinary approaches to understand waste as a social justice issue. Various types of waste will be considered as well as various waste governance and management practices.
NOTE Field Trip: estimated cost $30.
NOTE Field Trip: estimated cost $30.
Learning Hours: 132 (24 Lecture, 12 Tutorial, 24 Online Activity, 12 Off-Campus Activity, 60 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite (Level 3 or above and registration in an ENSC Major, ENVS Major, ENVS Joint Honours, EBIO, ECHM, EGEO, EGPY, ELSC, or ETOX Plan) or permission of the School.
Exclusion ENSC 483/3.0* (Topic Title: Waste - Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Winter 2024).
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Understand and be able to communicate through writing and oral presentation how waste is a Canadian and global social justice issue, involving inclusion, diversity, equity and Indigenous sovereignty issues.
- Critically assess the role and importance of the relations between material and social processes using the three central concepts of Social Justice, Upstream-downstream, and Inverted Quarantine.
- Critically assess differing theoretical and methodological approaches that might be deployed to understand the role of waste in social justice issues involving environmental, social, political, economic, and cultural interactions, and critically examine proposed solutions.
- Apply enhanced research methods and independent critical thinking to the multidisciplinary topic of waste.
- Apply effective communication skills through oral presentation and writing abilities directed to an audience of diverse stakeholders.