AHU47001

This upper-division seminar allows students to engage deeply with topics, concepts, and approaches in the emerging field of Environmental Humanities. Complementary to scientific approaches, the transdisciplinary field of environmental humanities draws on the arts, history, literature, philosophy, anthropology, and religious studies to explore human engagements with the non-human world, analyze social constructions and representations of nature, and produce creative works that recognize the power of the human imagination to heal contemporary environmental and social problems. We utilize global, historical, interpretive, narrative, and creative approaches as we explore topics such as climate change, global environmental history, indigenous systems, multi-species perspectives, and the power of creativity to reshape the world. SPECIAL NOTES: