Environmental Studies
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: 2 | 20 | |
Select at least one course related to culture and history from the following: 2 | ||
| Ecological Anthropology | ||
| North American Archaeology | ||
| The Anthropology of Water | ||
| Environmental Archaeology | ||
| The Arts of Asia | ||
| Art and Disaster in Modern and Contemporary Japan | ||
| British Art | ||
| Introduction to Environmental Education | ||
| Poetry, Nature, and Contemplation | ||
| British Romanticism: the Early 19th Century | ||
| Modern American Fiction | ||
| American Environmental Literature | ||
| Walking the Land | ||
| Introduction to "Nature" Writing | ||
| Environmental Writing in Digital Media | ||
| Native Americans and Land Use | ||
| Environmental and Biological Non-Fiction | ||
| "Nature" Writing | ||
| Field Studies in "Nature" Writing | ||
| The Many Faces of Sewanee | ||
| Environmental History | ||
| History of Southern Appalachia | ||
| The History of Sustainability and Sustainable Development | ||
| Environmental Literature and the History of Science and Ecocide in the USSR | ||
| Latin American Literature and the Environment | ||
| Beginning Narrative Nonfiction Workshop | ||
Select at least one course related to religion and values from the following: 2 | ||
| 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 | ||
Select up to three courses related to the arts, landscape, and design from the following: 2 | ||
| The Lens and the Landscape: Documentary Studies and the Environment | ||
| Intermediate Documentary Projects in Photography | ||
| Sustainable Structures | ||
| Modeling and Casting in Contemporary Sculpture | ||
| Advanced Seminar in the Production of Video and the Moving Image | ||
| Advanced Documentary Projects in Photography | ||
| Advanced Studio Seminar in Sculpture | ||
| Music of the Birds and Bees: Music and Nature | ||
| Select one course related to environmental policy from the following: | 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 | ||
| Environmental Land-Use Policy | ||
| Water Resource Policy and Law | ||
| China's Environmental Crisis | ||
| Environmental Politics and Policy | ||
| Select one course related to the life sciences from the following: 3 | 4 | |
| Conservation Biology | ||
| Field Investigations in Biology (Field-Based) | ||
| Reading the Landscape (Lab) | ||
| Advanced Conservation Biology (Lab) | ||
| Human Health and the Environment (Lab) | ||
| Ecosystems of the Ocean | ||
| Introduction to Forestry (Lab) | ||
| Select one course related to physical science from the following: 3 | 4 | |
| Foundations of Chemistry | ||
| Chemistry of Art and Artifacts | ||
| General Chemistry (Lab) | ||
| Advanced General Chemistry (Lab) | ||
| Physical Geology (Lab) | ||
| Earth Systems and Climate Change | ||
| Foundations of Global Warming | ||
| Total Semester Hours | 44 | |
| Code | Title | Semester Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Additional Requirements | ||
| A comprehensive examination | ||
| 1 | ENST 217 is strongly recommended as an elective outside the major. |
| 2 | At least one of the five courses from three themed categories must be in culture and history, at least one must be in religion and values, and no more than three courses may be selected from any one theme. |
| 3 | One of the life or physical science courses must be either a field-based or laboratory course, i.e. one of the following is required: BIOL 130, BIOL 220, BIOL 222, BIOL 232, CHEM 120, CHEM 150, FORS 121, or GEOL 121. |