Environment and Human Culture Major Concentration Requirements

The following required courses for this concentration are in addition to the ES major core courses.  Courses completed in this concentration can not count towards the core course requirements.

1. One of the following:

• ENES 235. Climate Fiction.
• ENVR 349.  Extinction.

2.  One of the following environmental philosophy courses:

• ES/PL 214. Environmental Ethics.
• ENVR 304. Politics of Nature.
• PHIL 310. Buddhist Philosophy.
• ES/PL 314. The Environment and What We Owe to Each Other.

3.  One of the following courses in rhetoric, literature, or visual studies:

• AM/ES 354. Bodies of Land- The Creation Indigeneity in Film.
• AVC 285. Renaissance and Post-Renaissance Gardens and Landscape Architecture.
• AVC 377A. Picturesque Suburbia.
• ENVR 308. Urban and Regional Food Systems.
• ENG 395D. Gender and Species.
• ENG 395L. Utopia.Dystopia Fiction.
• INDS 321. Afroambiente: Escritura negra y medio ambiente.
• RFSS 100.  What is Rhetoric?

4.  One of the following environmental history courses:

• CES/HI 301M. Maine: Environment and History.
• INDS 210. Technology in U.S. History.
• INDS 211. Environmental Perspectives on U.S. History.
• INDS 266. Environmental History of China.

5.  Two additional courses  (one at the 300 level) from environmental philosophy, literature, visual studies or environmental history above, or one of the following:

• AV/ES s15. Photographing the Landscape.
• EN/ES 121Q. The Lives of Rivers.
• ENVR 273. Land and Livelihood.
• ES/RE s25. Food and the Sacred.
• EA/GS s13. Infrastructures.
• ENVR s23.  Community Writing and Gardens.
• RFSS 120. Introduction to Screen Studies.

All of the courses required for this concentration are listed on the Environment and Human Culture major declaration form.