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Minor

Minor in Environmental Humanities

James Madison University James Madison University 59 courses

About This Program

Students will analyze and produce expressive, creative work that illustrates the complexity of human interaction with the environment. 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.

Degree Requirements

Humanities and the Environment: 12 Credit Hours

Choose four courses, no more than two from the same discipline: Approved Special Topics Courses. Approved Internship Programs. Approved Study Abroad Programs.

Code Course Title Credits
ARCD 330 Materials and Methods 3
ENG 221 Literature and Ideas 3
ENG 371 Literature and the Environment 3
ENG 390 The Environmental Imagination 3
ENVT 300 Topics in Environmental Humanities 3
ENVT 301 Internship in Environmental Humanities 3
ENVT 401 Studio or Independent Study in Environmental Humanities 3
GEOG 325 Environmental Ethics 3
HIST 304 Native Peoples of the United States 3
HIST 315 Global History of Sport 3
HIST 344 Magic Mountains, Man-eating Beasts and Unquiet Woods: An Environmental History of British India 3
HIST 353 The Global Middle East 3
HIST 374 The Southern Plantation 3
HIST 427 U.S. Environmental History 3
HIST 452 Parks and Recreation: History of National Parks 3
HIST 479 Global Environmental History: Mountains, Rivers and Animals in Asia and Africa 3
HIST 485 Colonial Knowledge Production in the Middle East and South Asia 3
INDU 392 Topics in Industrial Design 3
REL 366 or ENVT 366 Religion, Animals and the Environment or Religion, Animals and the Environment 3
SCOM 302 or WGSS 302 Third Wave Ecofeminism or Third Wave Ecofeminism 3
SCOM 354 or WRTC 326 Environmental Communication and Advocacy or Environmental Communication and Advocacy 3
SCOM 465 or WRTC 416 Rhetoric of Environmental Science and Technology or Rhetoric of Environmental Science and Technology 3
SOCI 311 Sociology of the Environment 3
SOCI 357 Sociology of Disasters 3
SOCI 359 The Sociology of Climate Denial 3

Humanities/Social Science Elective: 3 Credit Hours

Choose one of the following courses:

Code Course Title Credits
ANTH 300 The Anthropology of Food 3
ANTH 307 Climate, Culture and Change 3
ARTH 380 American Art to 1870 3
ENG 325 Romantic Literature 3
ENG 363 Native American Literature 3
ENG 496 Advanced Topics in Creative Writing 3
HIST 326 How Cars Changed Everything 3
HIST 327 Makers, Users, Skeptics and Thieves: Americans and Their Technologies 3
HIST 405 Travel and Exploration 3
HIST 443 Modern American Technology and Culture 3
HIST 453 Patterns of Global History 3
HIST 469 A History of International Development in the Twentieth Century 3
HUM 252 Global Cultures 3
HUMN 301 Introduction to Natural Disasters Response 3
ISAT 421 Environmental Policy and Regulation 3
PPA 484 Environmental Regulatory Policy and Politics 3
SOCI 354 Social Inequality 3
SOCI 358 Sociology of Consumption 3
WRTC 342 Writing Place 3
WRTC 358 Writing About Science and Technology 3

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