Environmental Justice Minor

To learn more about the EJ minor requirements, check out the 2025/2026 WWU Catalog

How to Declare: At any time, you can apply to the Environmental Justice Minor. To declare a minor, set up an appointment with a professional adviser on our Undergrad Academic Advising webpage, by visiting the College of the Environment Student Support office in Environmental Studies Building 539, or by calling 360-650-3520.

AY2526 Environmental Justice Curriculum (19 credits)

Required Courses (11 credits):

ENVS 303: Introduction to Environmental Studies I, 5 credits: Offered Fall 2025 and Winter 2026
ENVS 467: Power, Privilege, and the Environment, 4 credits: Offered Winter and Spring 2026 (ENVS 303 is a prerequisite)
ENVS 499D: Readings in Environmental Justice, 1 credit (must be taken twice): Offered Fall 2025 (no prerequisite, take at any time)

Additional Elective Courses (8 credits, minimum): Work with your Environmental Justice minor faculty advisor to select additional environmental justice-related courses to bring your total minor credits to a minimum of 19. Pre-approved courses are listed below.

Pre-approved Elective Courses for AY25/26:Please note that the courses listed here may have prerequisites or other enrollment restrictions that cannot be waived for students in the EJ minor. It’s always a good idea to reach out to faculty and ask which of these restrictions can be waived. This is not an exhaustive list. If you see another class that would help you complete the minor, just reach out to Kate Darby for approval. If you are an ENVS major, we will generally not allow overlap with these elective courses and your required ENVS classes.

Fall 2025

C/AM 368 OR FAIR 368: Decolonizing across Medicine Line (4 credits)
DISA 330: Critical Disability Studies (5 credits)
ENVS 115: Hope and Agency for a Climate-Altered World (3 credits)
ENVS 450: Science in the Policy Process (4 credits)
ESJ 411: Education and Social Justice (4 credits)
FAIR 336B: Radical Ecopsychology (5 credits)
SALI 201: Introduction to the Salish Sea (4 credits)
SALI 202: Introduction to the Salish Sea, lab (1 credit)
SALI 490: Salish Sea Studies Community Seminar (1 credit)
SOC 341: Sociology of Social Movements (5 credits)
UEPP 475: Comm Dev & Partic Methods (3 credits)

Winter 2026

ANTH 345: Energy in the Global South (5 credits)
C/AM 305: Treaties of the Salish Sea (4 credits)
DISA 330: Critical Disability Studies (5 credits)
ENRG 334 OR ENVS 344: Comm Solutions Climate Change (4 credits)
ENVS 334: Extractivism in Latin America (4 credits)
ESCI 404: Indigenous Resource Management (5 credits)
ESCI 453: Science and Management of Contaminated Sites (4 credits)
PLSC 348: Environmental Justice (5 credits)
SALI 201: Introduction to the Salish Sea (4 credits)
SALI 202: Introduction to the Salish Sea, lab (1 credit)
SOC 341: Sociology of Social Movements (5 credits)
UEPP 415: Planning Studio Food Security (3 credits)
UEPP 433: Social Justice and the City (4 credits)

Spring 2026

ANTH 545: Collaborative Research (5 credits)
ANTH 462: Critical Issues in Indigenous NW Studies (5 credits)
C/AM 305: Transboundary Water Governance (5 credits)
DISA 330: Critical Disability Studies (5 credits)
ENVS 465: Disaster Risk Reduction (4 credits)
ESCI 454 OR ENVS 417: Science Mgt & Outreach Contam Sites (4 credits)
FAIR 334T: Outback Farm and Food Justice (5 credits)
PLSC 436: Managing Environmental Commons (5 credits)
SALI 201: Introduction to the Salish Sea (4 credits)
SALI 202: Introduction to the Salish Sea, lab (1 credit)
SALI 490: Salish Sea Studies Community Seminar (1 credit)
SOC 397F: Social Movements and Social Change (5 credits)
UEPP 497C: Innovative Methods for Environmental Justice Studio (4 credits)
WGSS 363: Feminist Food Justice (5 credits)

Contact Prof. Kate Darby for more information about the minor (darbyk@wwu.edu)