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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |