Environmental Humanities Minor

Minor Requirements

20 credits

Introduction to Environmental Interdisciplinarity (4 credits)

Complete one of the following (4 credits). Environmental Studies majors must complete a different Knowing course than that used to satisfy their major requirement.

ENVS-2001	Knowing Birds	4 credits
ENVS-2002	Knowing Land	4 credits
ENVS-2003	Knowing Water	4 credits

Encountering Environmental Literature and Ideas (4 credits)

ENGL-2130

Visions of Environment

4 credits

Encountering Environmental Ethics (4 credits)

Complete one course (4 credits). Environmental Studies majors must complete a course not used to satisfy their major requirement.

ENVS-3005	Natural History and Ethics at the Museum	4 credits
PHIL-2060	Human Nature	4 credits
PHIL-3004	Environmental Philosophy	4 credits
PHIL-3012	Philosophy of Science	4 credits
PHIL-3048	Religion and Science	4 credits

Environmental Humanities Electives (8 credits)

Complete two courses (8 credits). Environmental Studies majors must complete courses not used to satisfy their major requirement. Note that both ENGL-3531 and ENVS-2012 have prerequisite prep courses.

ENGL-2110	African-American Literature	4 credits
ENGL-2120	Literature of the American West	4 credits
ENGL-2125	Native American Fiction	2 credits
ENGL-2250	Regionalisms in British Literature	4 credits
ENGL-2310	Introduction to Postcolonial Literature	4 credits
ENGL-2320	The Literature of Immigrants	4 credits
ENGL-3531	London Travel	4 credits
ENVS-2012	Winter Wilderness Experience	4 credits
ENVS-3005	Natural History and Ethics at the Museum	4 credits
HIST-2110	History of the Modern U.S.	4 credits
HIST-3110	Presence of the Past: Intro Public Hstry	4 credits
HIST-3120	The American West	4 credits
HIST-3540	Colonial Latin America	4 credits

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this minor, students will be able to:

1. Think critically about the ways in which environmental attitudes shape culture and cultural assumptions shape environment;
2. Identify, analyze, and describe (in both written and oral form) environmental values as they emerge in text;
3. Demonstrate familiarity with traditions in the environmental literature of the United States;
4. Reason analytically about the relationship between theological and scientific traditions in the western world; and
5. Recognize the necessity of interdisciplinary thinking in environmental problem-solving.