Major Overview
The major in environmental and sustainability studies with an environmental humanities concentration is an interdisciplinary track in the Environmental and Sustainability Studies program that attends to how human communities portray their relationship to nature and face ecological challenges throughout time. This concentration engages students in rigorous inquiry into and reflective practice of the cultural strategies, arts, theories, beliefs, and ideas that move people to connect or disconnect from the environment. The environmental humanities provide historical and cultural context for environmental concerns while insisting on how the environmental context grounds historical and cultural questions.
Major Requirements
The requirements for a major in environmental and sustainability studies with an environmental humanities concentration are 36 credits:
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Environmental and Sustainability Studies Courses | ||
| ENVR 103 | Ecosystems and Human Influence | 4 |
| or BIOL 221 | Ecology | |
| Ethics or Theology Courses | ||
| Select 8 credits in ethics or theology from the following: | 8 | |
| Environmental Ethics | ||
| Ethics of Sustainable Community | ||
| Religion and Ecology | ||
| Policy or Economics Courses | ||
| Select 4 credits in policy or economics from the following: | 4 | |
| Principles of Global Economics | ||
| Global Development Issues | ||
| Climate Change and Conflict | ||
| Environmental Policy- Politics | ||
| Petroleum Politics & Planet | ||
| Global Sustainability Issues | ||
| Environmental Nutrition | ||
| Politics of Development | ||
| Urban Communities | ||
| Social Change in Theory & Practice | ||
| Arts and Humanities Courses | ||
| Select 8 credits in arts and humanities from the following: | 8 | |
| Global Literature and Environmental Justice | ||
| Animal Stories: Kinship, Rivalry, and Alterity | ||
| Nature's Place in U.S. History | ||
| Sustainability in History | ||
| Elective Courses | ||
| Select 8 elective credits not taken above from the following: | 8 | |
| Conservation Biology | ||
| Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) | ||
| Video Production | ||
| Global Literature and Environmental Justice | ||
| Animal Stories: Kinship, Rivalry, and Alterity | ||
| Native American Literatures | ||
| Postcolonial Literatures | ||
| Global Development Issues | ||
| Urban Ecology | ||
| Environmental Ethics | ||
| Environmental Policy- Politics | ||
| Petroleum Politics & Planet | ||
| Global Sustainability Issues | ||
| Geology | ||
| Sustainability in Germany | ||
| Nature's Place in U.S. History | ||
| Indigenous Peoples of North America | ||
| Doing Digital History | ||
| Food in Global History | ||
| Sustainability in History | ||
| Politics of Development | ||
| The Ethics of Aid and Development | ||
| Ethics of Sustainable Community | ||
| Religions of India | ||
| Religion and Ecology | ||
| Cultural Anthropology | ||
| Urban Communities | ||
| Social Change in Theory & Practice | ||
| Research | ||
| ENVR 475 | Interdisciplinary Research | 4 |
| Total Hours | 36 | |
Degree and Graduation Requirements
In addition to the program-specific requirements listed above, all students must complete the graduation requirements specified for their degree. See the Degree and Graduation Requirements section for more information.