As an environmental humanities major, you will focus on exploring the artistic and intellectual movements, ideologies, and frameworks that humans use to create the value systems that give meaning to our world. At the heart of this exploration is delving into multiple disciplines toward understanding environmental narratives and issues across eras, cultures, and political contexts.
You will gain a strong foundation in critical thinking, reading, interpretation, comparative work, and effective writing—valuable skills for any field you choose to go into. You’ll also study pressing issues such as climate justice and Indigenous sovereignty, develop a sophisticated comprehension of how treatment of the natural world is based in conceptions and representations of nature, and learn how transformative environmental interventions require complex, intersectional approaches to social problems. Overall, you will engage deeply with ethical questions that arise around human relationships to nature.
Environmental humanities is offered as both a major and a minor.