Requirements & Courses
The Environmental Humanities minor is designed to give you broad exposure to different disciplinary approaches while also providing you with the flexibility to pursue your passions.
Overview
Minimum 18 credit hours (Some courses options are 4 hours, but the total will never exceed 20).
9 credit hours must be at the 3000/4000 level.
Three Distribution Lists
- Foundational Environmental Humanities Class (3-4 hours)
- Humanities and the Environment (9 hours)
- Social and Natural Sciences Approaches to the Environment & Human Ecologies (3-4 hours)
Elective (3 hours) One class from any of the distribution lists or as approved by Director of Minor; can include EHUM sections of PPS 1100 or PPS 1101..
Class Offerings
Foundational Environmental Humanities Class Options
- ANT 1307 The Evolution of Human Societies: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
- BIO 1303 Human Ecology: Our Place in Nature
- ENG 1310 Writing and Academic Inquiry—Tagged (EHUM)
- ENG 2310 American Literature Cultures—Tagged (EHUM)
- ENG 2301 British Literature—Tagged (EHUM)
- ENG 2306 World Literature—Tagged (EHUM)
- ENV 1301 & 1101 Exploring Environmental Issues & Lab
- ENV 2376 Environment and Society
- FYS 1399 (For HONS students) Child Migration in the Western Hemisphere
- HIS 1300 US in Global Perspective—Tagged (EHUM)
- GEO 1306 The Earth Through Time
- GEO 1307 Evolution and Extinction
- GEO 1401 Earthquakes and Other Natural Disasters
- GEO 1402 World Oceans
- PHI 1308 Contemporary Moral Problems—Tagged (EHUM)
Humanities and the Environment Class Options
- ENG 3360 Literature and the Environment
- HIS 4340 History of Hunting in North America—Tagged (EHUM)
- HIS 4383 History of the South—Tagged (EHUM)
- HIS 4388/ENV 4389 American Environmental History
- PHI 3322 Philosophy and the Arts—Tagged (EHUM)
- PHI 4310 Philosophy of Science
- REL 4393/ENV 4393 Environmental Ethics
- THEA 4321 History of Costume—Tagged (EHUM)
Social and Natural Sciences Approaches to the Environment and Human Ecologies Class Options
- ANT 3301 Science, Society, and Culture
- ANT 3320/ENV 3320 Environment and Human Behavior
- ANT 4311/ENV 4310 World Food Problems
- ANT 4321/ENV4322 Climate Anthropology
- ANT 4350/ENV4350 Development and Indigenous Peoples
- ANT 4362 Applied Anthropology
- ANT 4373 One Health: Connecting Global Health and Conservation Medicine
- BIO 3320 Climate Change Biology
- ECO 3355/SOC 3355 Introduction to Economics of Poverty and Discrimination
- ECO 4323/AVS 4323/ENV 4323 The Environment and Economic Analysis
- ENV 1303 Wildlife Ecology
- ENV 2307 Ecology for a Changing World
- ENV 3314/BIO 3315 Introduction to Environmental Health
- ENV 3103 Seminars on Environmental Topics
- ENV 4307/PSC 4307 Environmental Law
- ENV 4313 Agricultural Ecology
- ENV 4410 Humans and Environmental Change
- GEO 1309 Origins of Habitable Worlds
- GEO 4373/ENV 4374 Global Soil Systems
- MH 4V98 Racial Disparities in Healthcare—Tagged (EHUM)
- PSC/ENV 3300 The Environment and Political Processes
- SW 4322-01 Social Policy for Social Work Practice—Tagged (EHUM)
Elective
(3 hours) One class from any of the distribution lists or as approved by Director of Minor; can include EHUM sections of PPS 1100 or PPS 1101.