Environmental Humanities Minor
HFA PEAK
Through the minor in Environmental Humanities, students develop skills in humanistic inquiry while also considering how writers, philosophers, and other theorists have represented the relationship between human and non-human nature. Acknowledging that addressing environmental issues requires understanding and skills that emerge from many disciplines, courses engage students in multidisciplinary study as they analyze environmental ideas. Students minoring in Environmental Humanities encounter a range of theoretical approaches to a variety of dominant and non-dominant cultural expressions, exploring them as manifestations, creations, and interrogations of the human/nonhuman-nature relationship. Exposure to the fine arts ensures that students actively engage with the creative process. Students majoring in Environmental Studies may not minor in Environmental Humanities; students not majoring in Environmental Studies might consider pursuing the Environmental Science, Geography, or Geosciences minors to complement the Environmental Humanities minor.
Minor Requirements
16-19 credits
Introduction to Environmental Interdisciplinarity (3 credits)
Complete one course.
Encountering Environmental Literature and Ideas (3 credits)
ENG-239 | Visions of Environment | 3 credits |
Encountering Environmental Ethics (3 credits)
Complete one course.
ENV-305 | Natural History and Ethics at the Museum | 3 credits |
PHI-210 | Human Nature and the Scientific Worldview | 3 credits |
PHI-340 | Environmental Philosophy | 3 credits |
REL-348 | Religion and Science | 3 credits |
Environmental Humanities Electives (6-7 credits)
Complete two courses.
ENG-255 | Topics in Literature—British | 3 credits |
ENG-265 | Topics in Literature—American | 3 credits |
HIS-204 | History of the Modern U.S. | 3 credits |
HIS-305 | The Presence of the Past: Intro to Public Hist | 3 credits |
HIS-307 | The American West | 3 credits |
IND-305.2 | Winter Wilderness Experience | 4 credits |
IND-332 | London: Art/History/Literature | 3 credits |
Creative Activity Requirement (1–3 credits)
Complete 1-3 credits from the approved Creative Activities courses.