Environmental Humanities Minor
Coordinator: Katey Castellano
Email: castelkm@jmu.edu
Phone: (540) 568-3753
Environmental Humanities Minor Website
Program Description
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.
Minor Requirements
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 their major with the minor. At the discretion of the minor coordinator, science courses may be substituted into the minor.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Humanities and the Environment | ||
| Choose four of the following, with no more than two from the same discipline: | 12 | |
| Materials and Methods | ||
| Literature and Ideas [C2L] (only when the topic is "Environmental Literature") | ||
| Literature and the Environment | ||
| The Environmental Imagination | ||
| Topics in Environmental Humanities | ||
| Internship in Environmental Humanities | ||
| Studio or Independent Study in Environmental Humanities | ||
| Environmental Ethics | ||
| Native Peoples of the United States | ||
| Global History of Sport | ||
| Magic Mountains, Man-eating Beasts and Unquiet Woods: An Environmental History of British India | ||
| The Global Middle East | ||
| The Southern Plantation | ||
| U.S. Environmental History | ||
| Parks and Recreation: History of National Parks | ||
| Global Environmental History: Mountains, Rivers and Animals in Asia and Africa | ||
| Colonial Knowledge Production in the Middle East and South Asia | ||
| Topics in Industrial Design (only when the topic is "Design and Sustainability") | ||
| Religion, Animals and the Environment | ||
| Third Wave Ecofeminism | ||
| Environmental Communication and Advocacy | ||
| Rhetoric of Environmental Science and Technology | ||
| Sociology of the Environment | ||
| Sociology of Disasters | ||
| The Sociology of Climate Denial | ||
Approved Special Topics Courses | ||
Approved Internship Programs | ||
Approved Study Abroad Programs | ||
| Subtotal | 12 | |
| Humanities/Social Science Elective | ||
| Choose one of the following: | 3 | |
| The Anthropology of Food | ||
| Climate, Culture and Change | ||
| American Art to 1870 (for landscape, painting, nationalism) | ||
| Romantic Literature | ||
| Native American Literature | ||
| Advanced Topics in Creative Writing (Specific instructor's section only - see minor coordinator) | ||
| How Cars Changed Everything | ||
| Makers, Users, Skeptics and Thieves: Americans and Their Technologies | ||
| Travel and Exploration | ||
| Modern American Technology and Culture | ||
| Patterns of Global History | ||
| A History of International Development in the Twentieth Century | ||
| Global Cultures [C2HQC] ("Global South Asia" only) | ||
| Introduction to Natural Disasters Response | ||
| Environmental Policy and Regulation | ||
| Environmental Regulatory Policy and Politics | ||
| Social Inequality | ||
| Sociology of Consumption | ||
| Writing Place | ||
| Writing About Science and Technology | ||
| Subtotal | 3 | |
| Science Elective | ||
| Choose one of the following: 1 | 3 | |
| Environmental Systems Theory | ||
| Agricultural Systems | ||
| Wilderness Studies | ||
| Environment: Earth [C3NS] | ||
| Earth Systems and Climate Change [C3NS] | ||
| Introduction to Oceanography [C3NS] | ||
| Environmental Health | ||
| Environmental and Energy Sustainability [C3PP] | ||
| Environmental Issues in Science and Technology (2,3) [C3PP] | ||
| Global Nutrition | ||
| Subtotal | 3 | |
| Total Credits | 18 | |
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General Education courses may double count for the minor.