Course Description
GENDER AND SUSTAINABILITY, GSST 021
5 Units, Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour; individual study, 3 hours; extra reading, 1 hour; term paper, 2 hours; written work, 1 hour; research, 1 hour. Introduction to the relationship between gender and sustainability in global context. Draws on science, political ecology, and feminism as analytical lenses. Topics may include gender mainstreaming, economic development, ethics, ecology, population management, water treatment, sanitation, air quality, renewable energy, agriculture, political participation, community development, global capitalism, and environmental health.
Key Information
Credit: 5 quarter units /
3.33 semester units credit
UC Riverside, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Course Credit:
Upon successful completion, all online courses offered through cross-enrollment provide UC unit credit. Some courses are approved for GE, major preparation and/or, major credit or can be used as a substitute for a course at your campus.If "unit credit" is listed by your campus, consult your department, academic adviser or Student Affairs division to inquire about the petition process for more than unit credit for the course.
UC Berkeley:
Unit Credit
UC Davis:
Unit Credit
UC Irvine:
Unit Credit
UC Los Angeles:
General Education: GE-Social Analysis
UC Merced:
Unit Credit (see your Academic Advisor)
UC Riverside:
Major Requirement: requirement for Sustainability Studies Majors/Minors
UC San Diego:
General Education: Revelle - 1 Social Science; TMC 1 course toward lower division disciplinary breadth if noncontiguous to major; Sixth - 1 course Social Analysis
UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit
UC Santa Barbara:
Unit Credit
UC Santa Cruz:
Unit Credit
Course Creators
Chikako Takeshita
Juliann Allison
Juliann Emmons Allison is Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Faculty Chair of Sustainability and Director of Global Studies at the University of California-Riverside. Her teaching and research emphasizes feminist global political economy, critical environmental justice in the context of air quality and energy politics and policy, and community-based social change. Allison’s current research examines the sustainability of Southern California’s warehousing industry, gender and transitions to renewable energy sources, and ecological grief. Recent work appears in The Oxford Handbook of Energy Politics, ed. by Kathleen J. Hancock and Juliann Emmons Allison, The Cost of Free Shipping, ed. by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese, Energy Research and Social Science, the Journal of Labor and Society, and the Journal of Poverty.
Juliann Emmons Allison is Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Faculty Chair of Sustainability and Director of Global Studies at the University of California-Riverside. Her teaching and research emphasizes feminist global political economy, critical environmental justice in the context of air quality and energy politics and policy, and community-based social change. Allison’s ...Juliann Emmons Allison is Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Faculty Chair of Sustainability and Director of Global Studies at the University of California-Riverside. Her teaching and research emphasizes feminist global political economy, critical environmental justice in the context of air quality and energy politics and policy, and community-based social change. Allison’s current research examines the sustainability of Southern California’s warehousing industry, gender and transitions to renewable energy sources, and ecological grief. Recent work appears in The Oxford Handbook of Energy Politics, ed. by Kathleen J. Hancock and Juliann Emmons Allison, The Cost of Free Shipping, ed. by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese, Energy Research and Social Science, the Journal of Labor and Society, and the Journal of Poverty.
