Overview

Environmental Humanities is a multidisciplinary sequence that studies the way society interacts with the environment. While scientists measure physical aspects of environments and environmental change, humanities scholars focus on the many ways in which people have lived sustainably - or unsustainably - over time; the battle for resources; exploitation of labour, forced labour and slavery; the economics of sustainability; policy and politics around development and sustainability; the ways writers have described and understood the natural world and its land and marine environments, cultures and peoples.

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Completion requirements

A student must complete 40 cp of the Schedule of Unit Offerings, consisting of:

a. 10 cp from 100-level Specified unit (Part A)

b. 30cp from 100-, 200- and/or 300-level units (Part B)


Complete exactly 10 credit points from the following:

  • ENHU170Environmental Humanities10 CP

Complete exactly 30 credit points from the following:

  • ENHU170Environmental Humanities10 CP
  • ENHU270Unsustainable: A Global History of Consumption10 CP
  • ENHU271Literature and the Environment10 CP
  • ENHU370The Oceanic Humanities10 CP

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