Offering: Intersession 2025

This course, using interdisciplinary approaches, critically explores the multifaceted dimensions of the impact, risks, vulnerabilities, and adaptation to climate change and natural disasters for black communities in Africa and the diaspora. It explores the human capacity to cope with a wide range of environmental conditions vis a vis modernization, technological advancement, and their livelihood security. The course introduces students to the issue around environmental racism and justice as well as indigenous adaptive strategies, the challenges, and opportunities for sustainable futures for black communities.

Pre requisites: None

DRAFT Course outline for Intersession 2025. Draft course outlines are intended to help with enrollment decision-making, but will be revised without notice until the start of the term.