Environmental Humanities Minor

Dr. Katey Castellano, Coordinator

Phone: (540) 568-3753

Website: https://www.jmu.edu/environment/humanities.shtml

This minor allows students to articulate broad historical and cultural views of the complex interactions among humans and the natural and material environment. Students will analyze and produce expressive, creative work that illustrates the complexity of human interaction with the environment.

Students select 18 hours as distributed below. No more than three courses can come from a single academic unit in the total hours selected. Students may double-count two courses in the minor with their major. At the discretion of the minor coordinator, science courses may be substituted into the minor.

Humanities and the Environment

Choose four courses, no more than two from the same discipline: 12 Credit Hours

ARCD 330. Materials and Methods I 3.00
ENG 221. Literature/Culture/Ideas [C2L] 3.00 (for minor credit when topic is “Environmental Literature”)
ENG 371. Literature and the Environment 3.00
ENG 372. Ecocriticism and Environmental Ethics 3.00
ENG 390. The Environmental Imagination 3.00
ENVT 300. Topics in Environmental Humanities 3.00
ENVT 301. Internship in Environmental Humanities 3.00
ENVT 401. Studio or Independent Study in Environmental Humanities 3.00
GEOG 325. Environmental Ethics 3.00
HIST 270. Modern Middle East 3.00
HIST 304. Native Peoples of the United States 3.00 ¹
HIST 315. History of Sport 3.00
HIST 427. U.S. Environmental History 3.00
HIST 434. Recent America 3.00
INDU 392. Topics in Industrial Design 3.00 (for minor credit when topic is “Design and Sustainability”)
REL 366. Religion, Animals and the Environment 3.00
or
ENVT 366. Religion, Animals and the Environment 3.00
SCOM 302. Third Wave Ecofeminism 3.00
or
WGSS 302. Third Wave Ecofeminism 3.00
SCOM 354. Environmental Communication and Advocacy 3.00
or
WRTC 326. Environmental Communication and Advocacy 3.00
WRTC 416. Rhetoric of Environmental Science and Technology 3.00
or
SCOM 465. Rhetoric of Environmental Science and Technology 3.00
Approved Special Topics Courses
Approved Internship Programs
Approved Study Abroad Programs

Humanities/Social Science Elective

Choose one: 3 Credit Hours

ANTH 300. The Anthropology of Food 3.00 (C)
ANTH 307. Climate, Culture and Change 3.00 (A)
ANTH 430. Primate Conservation Biology 3.00 (B)
ARTH 380. American Art to 1870 3.00 (for landscape, painting, nationalism)
ENG 325. Romantic Literature 3.00
ENG 363. Native American Literature 3.00
ENG 496. Advanced Topics in Creative Writing 3.00 (Cavanagh’s section)
HIST 326. The Automobile in 20th Century America 3.00
HIST 327. Technology in America 3.00
HIST 405. Travel and Exploration 3.00
HIST 443. Modern American Technology and Culture 3.00
HIST 453**. Patterns of Global History 3.00
HIST 469. A History of International Development in the Twentieth Century 3.00
HUM 252. Global Cultures [C2HQC] 3.00 “Global South Asia” only
HUMN 301. Introduction to Natural Disasters Response 3.00
ISAT 421. Environmental Policy & Regulation 3.00
PPA 484. Environmental Regulatory Policy and Politics 3.00
SOCI 311. Sociology of the Environment 3.00
SOCI 354. Social Inequality 3.00
SOCI 358. Sociology of Consumption 3.00
WRTC 342. Writing Place 3.00
WRTC 358. Writing About Science and Technology 3.00

Science Elective

General Education courses may double-count for the minor.

Choose one: 3 Credit Hours

ENVT 200. Environmental Systems Theory 3.00
GEOG 322. Agricultural Systems 3.00
GEOG 341. Wilderness Techniques 3.00
GEOL 102. Environment: Earth [C3NS] 3.00
GEOL 115. Earth Systems and Climate Change [C3NS] 3.00
GEOL 211. Introduction to Oceanography [C3NS] 3.00
HTH 352. Environmental Health 3.00
ISAT 100. Environmental and Energy Sustainability [C3PP] 3.00
ISAT 112. Environmental Issues in Science and Technology (2,3) [C3PP] 4.00
NUTR 380. Global Nutrition 3.00

Total: 18 Credit Hours

¹ These four history courses are offered on a rotating basis. One will be offered each year. Each one contains substantial environmental material.