BLST 343 Black Ecology Collaboratory
In this project-based course, we will focus on Black ecological or environmental experiences and perspectives in Los Angeles and beyond. We will explore the theoretical and methodological tools and big ideas of the nascent field of Black Ecology through reading and discussing key texts. However, our ultimate aim is to share what we learn with as wide an audience we can muster using various digital technologies. Thus, this course is designed as a collaborative, interdisciplinary research collaboratory rooted in the tradition of W.E.B. Du Bois who operated a sociological research lab focused on Black life in America when he was a professor at Atlanta University between 1895-1924. Each iteration of this course will focus on a different project related to Black ecologies.