Environmental Humanities Graduate Certificate

The field of the Environmental Humanities is inherently interdisciplinary, drawing on the humanities disciplines of history, literature, philosophy, art and architectural history, theater arts, and the humanistic social sciences (anthropology, historical and cultural geography, sociology). The purpose of this certificate is to encourage students to deepen and broaden their understanding of the Environmental Humanities by sampling from a variety of disciplines that focus on the interactions between humans and the natural environment. Students will gain a deeper understanding of these interactions by studying the environment from a variety of humanistic perspectives.

Program Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to:

  • Gain an interdisciplinary understanding of the Environmental Humanities, beyond the students’ major discipline.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of how other disciplines within the Environmental Humanities can illuminate one’s own discipline through a public-facing creative project that brings together least two disciplinary perspectives on an issue or problem.
  • Learn to translate humanities scholarship to general audiences through interdisciplinary, public-facing creative projects.
  • Provide professional credentials for students interested in pursuing work in the Environmental Humanities.

Graduate Certificate in Environmental Humanities

The field of the Environmental Humanities is inherently interdisciplinary, drawing on the humanities disciplines of history, literature, philosophy, art and architectural history, theater arts, and the humanistic social sciences (anthropology, historical and cultural geography, sociology). The purpose of this certificate is to encourage students to deepen and broaden their understanding of the Environmental Humanities by sampling from a variety of disciplines that focus on the interactions between humans and the natural environment. Students will gain a deeper understanding of these interactions by studying the environment from a variety of humanistic perspectives.

Elective Courses 124
ARH 510
Experimental Course: [Topic]
ARH 607
Seminar: [Topic]
ENG 569
Literature and the Environment: [Topic]
ENG 607
Seminar: [Topic]
ENG 660
American Literature: [Topic]
ENVS 535
Environmental Justice
ENVS 550
Political Ecology
ENVS 604
Internship: [Topic]
GEOG 510
Experimental Course: [Topic]
GEOG 565
Environment and Development
GEOG 607
Seminar: [Topic]
HIST 566
The American West
HIST 568
The Pacific Northwest
HIST 573
American Environmental History: [Topic]
HIST 608
Workshop: [Topic]
PHIL 607
Seminar: [Topic]
PHIL 645
Environmental Philosophy: [Topic]
SOC 516
Issues in Environmental Sociology [Topic]
SOC 616
Environment and Resource Issues: [Topic]
TA 571
Studies in Theater and Culture: [Topic]
TA 572
Multicultural Theater: [Topic]
TA 607
Seminar: [Topic]
Methods Electives 2
ANTH 611
Ethnographic Research: Epistemology, Methods, Ethics
ENG 570
Technologies and Texts Capstone
GEOG 581
GIScience I
Terminal Project 34
ENVS 609
Terminal Project

Graduate students must take 24 credit hours from an approved list of courses. No more than two of those courses may have the same subject code (with the exception of ENVS 609), and only one course can come from the Methods Elective courses list. All courses must be at the 500 level or above. There are no required courses. However, students must produce and successfully present a public-facing creative project that draws on two or more disciplines, in consultation with a project advisor from each discipline. Students may elect to take up to 4 credit hours of ENVS 609 Terminal Project as part of their required credit hours, in addition to up to two courses with the ENVS subject code.

16 hours must be earned "in residence" at UO.