Environmental Humanities Minor
Environmental Humanities is a multidisciplinary field that explores the entangled relationships between human culture and the wider material world. If the Environmental Sciences investigate the material factors that contribute to our ecological crisis, the Environmental Humanities explore, in transformative dialogue with the sciences, the aesthetic, imaginative, religious, and ethical components that not only drive our crisis but also provide us with the cultural tools to bring about healthy, flourishing futures.
Why Study Environmental Humanities?
If the Environmental Sciences can give us the vital information needed to understand what is happening to our planet, the Environmental Humanities asks: why? And how do we, as individuals and communities, respond? An EH minor will allow you to investigate the complex answers to these urgent questions across a wide variety of disciplinary practices.
It is also a versatile path of study that can prepare you for diverse callings, whether as a lawyer practicing environmental law, a national park historian preserving both local history and ecological resources , a community organizer working for food justice in urban communities, a climate scientist sharing your findings with audiences of non-specialists, a pastor preaching on creation care, or a novelist imagining sci-fi green utopias, to name just a few.
And no matter where life takes you, an EH minor provides you with the time, tools, and experiences to reflect on your own engagement with the planet in ways that can transform your everyday life.
Requirements for a Minor in Environmental Humanities
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Eighteen semester hours, nine of which must be at the 3000-4000 level, from the following: | ||
| Required Courses | ||
| Foundational Environmental Humanities Course | 3 | |
| Humanities and the Environment Courses | 9 | |
| Social and Natural Science Course | 3 | |
| Select three additional hours from the above distribution lists, which can include EHUM sections of PPS 1100 or PPS 1101 | 3 | |
| Total Hours | 18 | |
Areas of Study
Foundational Environmental Humanities
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| The Evolution of Human Societies: An Interdisciplinary Perspective | ||
| Human Ecology: Our Place in Nature | ||
| Research Writing: Writing and Academic Inquiry Seminars 1 | ||
| British Literature 1 | ||
| World Literature 1 | ||
| American Literary Cultures 1 | ||
| Exploring Environmental Issues and An Introduction to Environmental Analysis (Lab) | ||
| Climate Change: Environmental and Human Dimensions | ||
| Environment and Society | ||
| First Year Seminars | ||
| The United States in Global Perspective 1 | ||
| The Earth Through Time | ||
| Evolution and Extinction | ||
| Earthquakes and Other Natural Disasters | ||
| World Oceans | ||
| Contemporary Moral Problems 1 |
Humanities and the Environment
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Writing Climate Change | ||
| Literature and the Environment | ||
| Literature of the American West and Southwest 1 | ||
| Women Writers 1 | ||
| Ecogothic Literature | ||
| Oceanic Literature | ||
| A Cultural History of Hunting in North America | ||
| History of the South 1 | ||
| American Environmental History | ||
| Latin American Studies Seminar | ||
| Philosophy and the Arts 1 | ||
| Philosophy of Science | ||
| Philosophy and Medicine 1 | ||
| Special Topics in Writing Workshop 1 | ||
| Environmental Ethics | ||
| History of Costume 1 |
Social and Natural Science
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Science, Society, and Culture | ||
| Environment and Human Behavior | ||
| World Food Problems | ||
| Climate Anthropology | ||
| Development and Indigenous People | ||
| Applied Anthropology | ||
| One Health: Connecting Global Health and Conservation Medicine | ||
| Climate Change Biology | ||
| Science Leadership: Community-Based Research | ||
| Introduction to the Economics of Poverty and Discrimination | ||
| The Environment and Economic Analysis | ||
| Wildlife Ecology | ||
| Ecology for a Changing World | ||
| Introduction to Environmental Health | ||
| Seminar on Environmental Topics | ||
| Environmental Law | ||
| Environmental Justice | ||
| Agricultural Ecology | ||
| Humans and Environmental Change | ||
| Origins of Habitable Worlds | ||
| Global Soil Systems | ||
| Advanced Topics in Medical Humanities 1 | ||
| The Environment and Political Processes | ||
| Urban Political Processes | ||
| Special Topics in Sociology 1 | ||
| Social Policy for Social Work Practice 1 |
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Only course sections that include EHUM in the title are eligible to count for the minor.