Are you interested in teaching and learning in informal ways? Does working with community excite you? Do you want to help organizations and individuals engage in change work and justice-related causes? Do you love to work outdoors with children or adults? Then the Education and Eco Social Justice emphasis is for you.
This emphasis engages you in critical, practical, experiential, action- and solutions-based education. It explores themes of environmental hope, eco- and social-justice, Indigenous and Land/Sea pedagogies, and Urban/City settings. With partnerships around the Salish Sea, students work on local projects that focus on public health, socio-environmental literacy, and climate justice.
Graduates with this emphasis have assumed positions as curriculum consultants, interpreters with resource management agencies, youth coordinators, facilitators for disability services, and a diversity of educator roles with non-profits, schools, government, and businesses.
Sample Careers
Educator, Curriculum Writer, Environmental Interpreter, Adventure Educator, Community Organizer, Youth Coordinator, Naturalist, Communications work in Sustainability Non-profits and Government Agencies, Educational Consultant, Field School Administrator, Wellness Facilitator, Intergenerational Educator.
