Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 4 · IGETC Area 4H · CSU GE Area D8DescriptionCal-GETC Area 4 (Social & Behavioral Sciences) Satisfies Global Citizenship This course examines environmental politics. The political, economic, and social origins of environmental change and degradation are examined, as well as democratic, bureaucratic and market-based solutions to environmental problems advocated by environmental movements, interest groups and political parties. Arguments for best public policy responses to a range of environmental problems will be assessed and debated. The course offers a practical problem-solving approach focusing primarily on the relations between a range of contemporary political values and on what it means to take political responsibility for reducing the human impact on the earth. POL SC 22 is the same course as ENVRN 22. Students may earn credit for one, but not both. 