Environmental Arts and Humanities
This major examines environmental issues by integrating the diverse perspectives offered by anthropology, history, literature, philosophy, religion, and visual studies. While encouraging students to pursue their own specific interests within environmental arts and the humanities, the major includes three interrelated components of common study. First, it offers an interdisciplinary grounding in environmental science and policy. Second, it examines how the areas of environmental arts and humanities inform and are informed by the perspectives of environmental science and policy. Finally, as the defining core of the major, students explore how the arts and humanities enrich our understanding of humanity's complex, evolving relation to the world we inhabit and inform our responses to the many dimensions of environmental issues.
Requirements for the Major in Environmental Arts and Humanities
The major requires successful completion of the following:
| Code | Title | Semester Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Course Requirements 1 | ||
| ENST 101 | Introduction to Environmental Studies | 4 |
| ENST 200 | Introduction to Environmental Arts and Humanities | 4 |
| ENST 400 | Environmental Arts and Humanities Capstone | 4 |
| Select five courses from the following three themed categories with at least one course from the Culture and History category, at least one course from the Religion and Values category, and no more than three courses from any single category: | 20 | |
Culture and History (attribute ESCH) | ||
| Archaeology of North America | ||
| Anthropology and Environmental Justice | ||
| Ecological Anthropology | ||
| One Health | ||
| Environmental Archaeology | ||
| The Anthropology of Water | ||
| Asian Art: Prehistory to Contemporary | ||
| Art and Disaster in Modern and Contemporary Japan | ||
| British Art | ||
| Poetry, Nature, and Contemplation | ||
| British Romanticism: the Early 19th Century | ||
| American Environmental Literature | ||
| Walking the Land | ||
| Introduction to "Nature" Writing | ||
| Environmental Writing in Digital Media | ||
| Environmental and Biological Non-Fiction | ||
| Equitable Environmental Education | ||
| "Nature" Writing | ||
| Field Studies in "Nature" Writing | ||
| Special Topics in the Environment and Sustainability | ||
| Environmental History | ||
| History of Southern Appalachia | ||
| The Many Faces of Sewanee | ||
| The History of Sustainability and Sustainable Development | ||
| History of Conservation and Wilderness Preservation | ||
| Appalachian Religion | ||
| Environmental Literature and the History of Science and Ecocide in the USSR | ||
| Latin American Literature and the Environment | ||
| Beginning Narrative Nonfiction Workshop | ||
Religion and Values (attribute ESRV) | ||
| Place, Ritual, and Belief | ||
| Sacred Arts of Japan | ||
| Sacred Arts of China | ||
| Environmental Ethics | ||
| Ethics and the Anthropocene | ||
| Religion and Animals | ||
| Religious Environmentalism | ||
| Greening Buddhism | ||
Arts, Landscape, and Design (attribute ESAL) | ||
| The Lens and the Landscape: Documentary Studies and the Environment | ||
| Intermediate Documentary Projects in Photography | ||
| Sustainable Structures | ||
| Advanced Seminar in the Production of Video and the Moving Image | ||
| Advanced Documentary Projects in Photography | ||
| Advanced Studio Seminar in Sculpture | ||
| Select one course related to environmental policy from the following (attribute ESPO): | 4 | |
| Archaeological Resource Management and Policy | ||
| Environmental Economics | ||
| Foundations of Food and Agriculture | ||
| Freshwater Conservation | ||
| Community Development and Place in Rural Appalachia | ||
| Ecological Integrity in Agriculture | ||
| Ecosystem Services | ||
| Food and Agriculture Policy | ||
| Environmental Policy and Law | ||
| Environmental Land-Use Policy | ||
| Water Resource Policy and Law | ||
| China's Environmental Crisis | ||
| Environmental Politics and Policy | ||
| Select one course related to the life or physical sciences from the following (attribute ESLP): | 4 | |
| Conservation Biology | ||
| Field Investigations in Biology | ||
| Reading the Landscape (Lab) | ||
| Advanced Conservation Biology (Lab) | ||
| Human Health and the Environment (Lab) | ||
| Topics in Contemporary Chemistry | ||
| Chemistry of Art and Artifacts | ||
| General Chemistry (Lab) | ||
| Advanced General Chemistry (Lab) | ||
| Ecosystems of the Ocean | ||
| Introduction to Forestry (Lab) | ||
| Physical Geology (Lab) | ||
| Earth Systems and Climate Change | ||
| Foundations of Global Warming | ||
| Total Semester Hours | 40 | |
| Code | Title | Semester Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Additional Requirements | ||
| A comprehensive examination | ||
- 1
ENST 217 is strongly recommended as an elective outside the major.
- 2
A second physical or life science course is strongly recommended as an elective outside the major.