Environmental Humanities Minor

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Students must complete all of the following requirements in addition to the requirements for a bachelor of arts major to graduate with this minor. Some courses may apply toward multiple requirements.

Minor Requirements:

Total minor units: 5

Students may need to satisfy prerequisites before enrolling in courses required for the minor.

Five Units of Environmental Humanities Courses, from a Minimum of Two Departments:

Environmental Humanities

ENVH 101 - Introduction to Environmental Humanities

Anthropology

ANTH 201 - Topics in Contemporary Anthropology -only when offered as: “Food and Agriculture,” or as “Global Political Ecology”
ANTH 376 - Situating Climate Change
ANTH 378 - Nature, Culture, and Environmentalism
ANTH 379 - Power, Resources, Extractivism

Art

Dance

DANC 362 - Dance & Ecology: Ethnographic Approaches

English & Creative Writing

CRWR 321 - Special Topics Studio -only when offered as: “Dancing in the Mud: Ecological Play and the Playful Imagination”
CRWR 331 - Special Topics Studio -only when offered as: “More than Human: Poetic Structures and the Lyric”
ENG 201 - Introduction to Narrative -only when offered as: “Border Writing: Displacement, Memory, and Narration,” or as “Fables of Warning: Rachel Carson’s Ecological Imagination”
ENG 206 - Environmental Humanities Collaboratory
ENG 341 - Studies in American Literature -only when offered as: “Humanity at Sea: Personhood from Moby Dick to Moby Doll,” or as “Literature of Reconstruction: ‘Postbellum - Pre-Harlem’”
ENG 370 - Studies in Cultural Contacts -only when offered as “Modernity and Memory in the Indian Ocean”
ENG 381 - Film and New Media Studies -only when offered as: “Cinemas of Rebellion”

Reed College Catalog

Environmental Humanities Minor

Minor Requirements:

Five Units of Environmental Humanities Courses, from a Minimum of Two Departments:

Environmental Humanities

Anthropology

Art

Dance

English & Creative Writing

History

Music

Philosophy

Political Science

Religion

Russian (& Lit in Translation)

Spanish (& Lit in Translation)