Courses

Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of the Faith and Ecological Justice Program, students will be able to:

  • Respond to ecological issues with theological, ethical, spiritual, and/or practice-based resources
  • Engage constructively in public discourse on a wide range of environmental issues
  • Explain the connection between faith and ecological justice to a layperson
  • Incorporate ecological justice into the life of a faith community, fostering human relations with the earth
  • Identify ecological justice resources and use them in a variety of settings
  • Produce creative responses to ecological justice issues

Requirements: Completion of courses in compliance with the following:

  1. Successful completion of TS 881: Introduction to Environmental Justice
  2. Successful completion of three more courses with an emphasis on ecological justice from the following list:
    1. TC882: Faith-Based Community Organizing for Justice and Peace
    2. TS842: Watershed Discipleship
    3. TC872: Animals and Healing
    4. TT884: Native American Philosophies and Theologies
    5. TN840: Bible and the Environment
    6. TS871: Religion and Climate Change
    7. EN749: Environmental Humanities
    8. A 3-credit Contextual Education Placement engaging ecological justice
  3. Travel seminars that substantially engage ecological justice or sustainability may count towards the three additional courses.
  4. Students may be permitted to substitute another BU, STH, or BTIC course in which the focus of their major research is on environmental justice or sustainability, broadly defined. To request such a substitution, students will need to consult with the certificate coordinator and submit a petition with their support to the STH Academic Dean.
  5. No more than two of the required courses can be taken outside of STH, including EN749: Environmental Humanities.