The course will be
held on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus with day trips to a
housing project in southeast
Chicago
,
downtown Milwaukee,
the
Fox River Valley,
the
Menominee reservation,
Point Beach Nuclear Plant, and a
tour of local facilities,
including a local landfill, a sewage treatment plant and a local power
plant.
Visiting the sites will allow
participants to gain an appreciation for environmental impacts that can
only be fully understood by visiting in person. These experiences
are integral to the class and will allow participants to see the struggles
of environmental justice that happen in our own communities.
One of the trips will require an overnight. This cost will be
covered in the course fee.