Environmental Humanities Minor
The minor in environmental humanities (EH) complements environmental science and policy with a focus on cultural expression and analysis. EH is an interdisciplinary field of study, where students learn environmental history, storytelling, critical thinking, philosophy, and the arts. In EH, we understand that ecological well-being relies on cultural solutions as well as scientific and technical ones.
EH students can explore international approaches to sustainable living, including philosophies and lifeways of the global south and of Indigenous nations worldwide. EH embraces the arts as a means of storytelling and advocating for environmental health, and it embraces philosophy and history as means of better knowing where we are and how we might best live as humans in a changing climate. This is a minor that works well with science and technology majors, to help students cultivate a broad cultural vision, imagination, and vocabulary for change.
Environmental Humanities Minor Requirements
Courses used to fulfill the minor requirements must be taken for a letter grade and passed with a grade of C- or better.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ENVS 203 | Introduction to Environmental Studies: Humanities | 4 |
| Electives 1 | ||
| Lower Division Electives: | 4 | |
| Introduction to Traditional Ecological Knowledge | ||
| Domestic Animals | ||
| Animals and People | ||
| Introduction to Environmental Literature | ||
| Geographies of Outdoor Adventure | ||
| Food in World History | ||
| Introduction to Global Environmental History | ||
| Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy | ||
| Food Ethics | ||
| Upper Division Electives: | 16 | |
| Native North Americans | ||
| Hunters and Gatherers | ||
| Food and Culture | ||
| Arts and Visual Cultures of Climate Change | ||
| Literature of the Northwest | ||
| Environmental Ethics | ||
| Nature in Popular Culture | ||
| Environmental Justice | ||
| Indigenous Peoples of Oregon | ||
| Native Americans and the Environment | ||
| Environmental Racism | ||
| Car Cultures | ||
| Folklore and Foodways | ||
| Society, Culture, and Place | ||
| Nature, Culture, and the Environment | ||
| Global Food Security | ||
| American Environmental History to 1890 | ||
| American Environmental History 1890 to Present | ||
| The American West | ||
| The American West | ||
| The Pacific Northwest | ||
| American Environmental History: [Topic] | ||
| Introduction to Philosophy of Science | ||
| Environmental Philosophy | ||
| Native American Philosophy | ||
| Science, Technology, and Gender | ||
| Gender, Environment, and Development | ||
| Total Credits | 24 | |
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Undergraduate students must take 24 credit hours, 20 of which come from an approved list of electives (listed below). Students must take ENVS 203, Introduction to Environmental Studies: Humanities, for a maximum of 4 credit hours. No more than two courses for the Environmental Humanities minor may have the same subject code with the exception of ENVS, which can be two courses beyond the required ENVS 203.
All upper-division courses for the minor must be taken in residency at UO. Up to 4 lower-division credits may be taken elsewhere, with the approval of academic and career advisors in Tykeson Hall.