Environmental Humanities suggested courses

The following is our list of potential concentration courses offered in the academic year 2024-2025 for students concentrating in Environmental Humanities.

This list of potential concentration courses is non-exhaustive and is intended only as a resource to help students find relevant courses. Students may use courses not included on this list to satisfy their concentration requirement.

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  • AFST 833 Agrarian History of Africa Instructor: R. Harms
  • AFST 839 Environmental History of Africa Instructor: R. Harms
  • AMST 459 Multispecies Worlds Instructor: K. Dudley
  • AMST 839 Readings in Environmental History Instructor: P. Sabin
  • ANTH 244 Social Change in Contemporary Southeast Asia Instructor: E. Zucker
  • ANTH 371 Inequality in the Anthropocene: Thinking the Unthinkable Instructor: K.Dudley & K.McNally
  • ANTH 541 Agrarian Societies: Culture, Society, History, and Development Instructor: Team
  • ARCH 306 Ornamenting Architecture: Cosmos, Nature, Neuroaesthetics Instructor: Staff
  • EVST 109 Climate & Environment in American History: From Columbian Exchange to Closing of the Frontier Instructor: M.Peterson
  • EMD 582 Political Epidemiology Instructor: G. Gonsalves
  • ENV 742 Fundamentals of Working with People Instructor: Gentry/DeCew
  • ENV 744 Conservation Science and Landscape Planning Instructor: O. Schmitz
  • ENV 750 Writing the World Instructor: V. Klinkenborg
  • ENV 820 Land Use Law and Environmental Planning Instructor: M. Shansky
  • ENV 857 Environmental History and Values Instructor: Grim/Tucker
  • ENV 951 Strategic Environmental Communication Instructor: A. Leiserowitz
  • ER&M 200 Introduction to Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Instructor: A. Camacho
  • ER&M 392 Urban History in the United States, 1870 to the Present Instructor: J.Klein
  • EVST 211 Global Catastrophe since 1750 Instructor: W. Rankin
  • EVST 212 Democracy and Sustainability Instructor: M. Fotos 
  • EVST 219 Philosophical Environmental Ethics Instructor: S.Latham 
  • EVST 224 Writing About the Environment Instructor: A.Burdick 
  • EVST 228 Climate Change and the Humanities Instructor: K.Lindskog 
  • EVST 247 Politics of the Environment Instructor: P. Swenson 
  • EVST 255 Environmental Law and Politics Instructor: J. Wargo 
  • EVST 258 Wilderness in the North American Imagination Instructor: C. Nugent 
  • EVST 318 American Energy History Instructor: P. Sabin 
  • EVST 324 Environmental Justice in South Asia Instructor: Staff 
  • EVST 354 The Ancient State: Genesis and Crisis from Mesopotamia to Mexico Instructor: H.Weiss 
  • EVST 368 The History of the Earth from Noah to Darwin Instructor: I. Dal Prete 
  • EVST 391 Alienation, Reconciliation from Hegel to the Ecological Rift Instructor: R.Campe 
  • EVST 422 Climate and Society: Perspectives from the Social Sciences and Humanities Instructor: M. Dove 
  • EVST 463 Documentary Film Workshop Instructor: C. Musser 
  • GLBL 236 The Politics of International Law and Cooperation Instructor: T. Pratt 
  • HIST 130J Indians and the Spanish Borderlands Instructor: N. Blackhawk 
  • HIST 445J Natural History in History Instructor: P. Bertucci 
  • HSHM 006 Making Climate Knowledge Instructor: D. Coen 
  • LITR 294 World Cities and Narratives Instructor: K. Jackson 
  • LITR 461 Postcolonial Ecologies Instructor: C. Iheka 
  • SPAN 230 Reading Environments: Nature, Culture, and Agency Instructor: L. Nájera
  • RUSS 355 Ecology and Russian Culture Instructor: M.Brunson 

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