Environmental Humanities

While scientific research and technological innovation are critical to addressing the ecological challenges of our time, the environmental humanities can offer equally vital insights by examining how cultural values, artistic expressions, and ethical perspectives have formed -- and been formed by -- humans' relationships with the environment. By consulting artists, poets, writers, and thinkers, students will untangle the intertwined connection between ''nature'' and ''culture,'' tapping into key existential questions about what it means to be humans who not only live in this world, but who seek to solve the environmental problems that they have caused or exacerbated.