EJS3300EN - Economics & Environmental Justice

Course description

Economics have been ignored as stated in Michigan v. the Environmental Protection Agency, 576 U.S. 743 (2015). Responding to the court’s decision this course explores the benefits of combining science and law to reverse racial discrimination among minorities and low-income communities

How this course benefits students

This course introduces the student to the transcendental nonsense in Michigan and how the nonsense can be reversed by Scientia Junctus Legum. Students benefit by receiving legal reasoning skills pertinent to economic analysis.

Why this course is important

There are not enough qualified civil rights attorneys to do the job. Remember the 2000 movie Erin Brockovich, a true story. Both Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and Felix Solomon Cohen advocated predictability in the law. This course provides the predictability that Holmes and Cohen sought.

Credit hours
3 hours
Subject area
Environmental Justice
Educational level
Bachelor
Learning type
Instructional
Prerequisites
None
Upcoming terms
Pending
* Schedule subject to change. Please contact the Registrar's office with schedule questions.

How this course relates to missional core values

Biblically based

Titus 1:7-9 exhorts Christians to be good stewards as overseers. Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done. Proverbs 19:17. The Hebrew word דָּ֑ל has many meanings: poor, depressed, lean, helpless, weak.

Missionally driven

Coming to the aid of environmentally afflicted communities with a new and novel method to identify health and remediation costs to alleviate and/or eradicate their suffering is the cornerstone of this program of justice advocacy.

Contextually informed

This course informs students of the evolving career of Environmental Justice Advocate. The context is technological, scientific and legal.

Interculturally focused

This course focuses on minorities and low-income groups such as indigenous peoples around the world. These communities are widely different in their cultures and advocates tailor make their support to these different cultures.

Practically minded

This course is practical because it applies evolving technological, scientific and legal analytical methods to minister to people and their respective communities.

Experientially transformed

The student is transformed experientially by all the above to become an Environmental Justice Advocate.