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BA.EN.HU - Environmental Humanities (Major)

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Program Electives

Environmental Studies Electives

Course substitutions for Foundational and Interdisciplinary coursework must be approved by the Environmental Studies Committee.

Foundational Natural and Physical Sciences Courses

All Environmental Studies majors except those concentrating in Biology, Chemistry, Geology, or Physics must take at least seven credits from the following courses. Credits must come from at least two different departments and include at least one course with a lab.

Lab Courses

BIOL-115

Natural History and Ecology

BIOL-130

Conservation Biology

ENVS-115

Semester in the West: Field Methods and Practices (Environmental Science)

GEOL-110, GEOL-111

The Physical Earth, The Physical Earth Lab

GEOL-120, GEOL-121

Geologic History of the Pacific Northwest/Geologic History of the Pacific Northwest Lab

GEOL-120, GEOL-125

Environmental Geology, Environmental Geology Lab

Non-Lab Courses

BIOL-210

When is science reliable?

CHEM-100

Introduction to Environmental Chemistry and Science

ENVS-201

Special Topics - Introductory Environmental Sciences (all offerings)

ENVS-301

Special Topics - Intermediate Environmental Sciences (all offerings)

GEOL-130

Weather and Climate

GEOL-150

Earth’s Climate: Past, Present, & Future

GEOL-229

Geology and Ecology of Soils

GEOL-258

Geology in the Field

PHYS-105

Energy and the Environment

Foundational Social Sciences Courses

All Environmental Studies majors except those concentrating in Anthropology, Economics, History, Politics, or Sociology must take at least two of the following courses from at least two different departments.

ANTH-203

Introduction to Environmental Anthropology

ANTH-313

Communism, Socialism and the Environment

ANTH-333

Domestic/Wild: Unruly Homes, Wild Biomes

ECON-100

Principles of Microeconomics and the Environment

ECON-294-A
Offered Spring 2026.

ST: Energy Economics

ENVS-105

Semester in the West: Field Methods and Practices (Social Science)

ENVS-200

Special Topics - Introductory Environmental Social Sciences

ENVS-300

Special Topics - Intermediate Environmental Social Sciences

HIST-120

POL-120

History and Politics of Mexican Food

HIST-155

Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral: Natural Resources in Global Environmental History

HIST-205

East Asian Environmental History

HIST-206

European Environmental History to 1800

HIST-231

Oceans Past and Future: Introduction to Marine Environmental History

HIST-232

Changing Landscapes: Introduction to Terrestrial Environmental History

HIST-262

People/Nature/Technology: North American Landscapes

HIST-263

From Farm to Fork: Slow Food, Fast Food, and European Foodways

HIST-355

Pacific Whaling History

POL-119

Whitman in the Global Food System

POL-124

Introduction to Politics and the Environment

POL-134

Introduction to Environmental Racism

POL-200-A
Offered Spring 2026

ST: Politics of Carbon Finance

POL-228

Political Ecology

POL-255

Gender, Race and the Environment

POL-287

Natural Resource Policy and Management

POL-309

Environment and Politics in the American West

POL-315-A
Offered Spring 2026

ST: Reckoning with Nukes

POL-335

The Politics of the Body as Territory

POL-339

Nature, Culture, Politics

POL-370

Power, Pipelines and Dispossession

POL-375

Global Energy Politics

SOC-229

Environmental Sociology

Interdisciplinary Courses

All Environmental Studies majors, regardless of concentration, must take at least one of the following courses.

ENVS-203

Special Topics - Introductory Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (all offerings)

ENVS-303

Special Topics - Intermediate Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (all offerings)

ENVS-305

Water in the West

ENVS-307

Beastly Modernity: Animals in the 19th Century

ENVS-310

Semester in the West: Interdisciplinary Study of Environmental Problems

ENVS-314

Art and the Anthropocene

ENVS-321

History and Ethnobiology of the Silk Roads

ENVS-322

The Anthropocene

ENVS-325

Disasters

ENVS-327

Biodiversity

ENVS-329

Environmental Health

ENVS-345

The Cultural Worlds of Mountains

ENVS-350

Politics of Salmon

ENVS-353

Environmental Justice

ENVS-362

Food, Culture, and Politics

ENVS-408

SW Western Epiphanies: Integrated Project

ENVS-459

Interdisciplinary Fieldwork


Environmental Humanities Electives

Any course substitutions must be approved by the Environmental Humanities faculty.

Creative Production

ARTS-110

Foundations: Animals & Art

ARTS-314

ENVS-314

Art and the Anthropocene

ENVS-216

What is “Nature Writing”?

ENVS-347

The Nature Essay

ENVS-360

Environmental Writing and the American West

Ethics

AMES-229

ENVS-229

JPNS-229

Ecocriticism in Japanese Literature and Film

ENVS-308

(Re)thinking Environment

PHIL-120

Environmental Ethics

PHIL-262

Animals and Philosophy

Paradigms

Asterisks (*) denote courses meeting the Ancient or Underrepresented Paradigms requirement.

AMES-229

ENVS-229

JPNS-229

Ecocriticism in Japanese Literature and Film

CLAS-171

REL-171

Apocalypse: Ancient and Modern Visions of the End

*

CLAS-205

ENVS-205

Women and Nature in the Ancient World

*

CLAS-226

ENVS-226

Concepts of Nature in Greek and Roman Thought

*

ENGL-245

Native American Literatures

*

ENVS-212

Introduction to Environmental Humanities

ENVS-227

PHIL-227

Concepts of Nature in Modern European Philosophy

ENVS-317

GLIT-317

Concepts and Images of Nature in Chinese Culture

*

ENVS-335

GERM-335

Romantic Nature

GLIT-225

JPNS-425

Exploring Human-Nonhuman Dynamics in Japanese Literature

*

HISP-434

Hispanic Poetics of the Non-Human

*

Additional Environmental Humanities Courses

Asterisks (*) denote courses meeting the historical period predating modern environmentalist movements requirement.

ARTH-226

ENVS-226

Landscape and Cityscape in Ancient Rome

*

ARTH-351

Los Angeles: Art, Architecture, Cultural Geography

ARTH-352

Art/Environment

CLAS-171

REL-171

Apocalypse: Ancient and Modern Visions of the End

*

CLAS-205

ENVS-205

Women and Nature in the Ancient World

*

CLAS-217

ENVS-217

Classical Foundations of the Nature Writing Tradition

*

CLAS-226

ENVS-226

Concepts of Nature in Greek and Roman Thought

*

CLAS-319

ENVS-319

Landscape and Cityscape in Ancient Rome

*

ENVS-227

PHIL-227

Concepts of Nature in Modern European Philosophy

*

ENVS-230

The Cultural and Literary Life of Rivers

ENVS-317

GLIT-317

Concepts and Images of Nature in Chinese Culture

ENVS-335

GERM-335

Romantic Nature

*

ENVS-339

Writing Environmental Disasters

ENVS-365

Other Earths: Environmental Change and Speculative Fiction

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