Green Criminology

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Distinguish between types of environmental crimes and be able to interpret these harms within their socio-cultural context.
• Explore the politics behind select environmental crimes.
• Demonstrate both orally and in written form the dynamics, causes and consequences of environmental harm.
• Engage in comparative analysis of ecological crisis, violence, human conflict and vulnerability
• Identify and discuss the major issues in the literature on green criminology, particularly the impact of the ecological crisis on violent conflict
• Apply key ideas from the green criminology literature to empirical case studies of environmental harm

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
12 Quizzes, one each week, 25 points each	300 points
5 Discussion Groups, roughly every two weeks, 40 points each	200 points
6 Films and written analyses, 50 points each	300 points
1 Final Research Project	200 points

Grading Scale

Percentage	Letter Grade
1000-920 points	A
919-890 points	A-
889-870 points	B+
869-820 points	B
819-790 points	B-
789-770 points	C+
769-720 points	C
719-690 points	C-
689-670 points	D+
669-620 points	D
619-590 points	D-
Below 589 points	F

Attendance/Participation:

Attendance is not required for this asynchronous/online course

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

No course materials are required.