SUM4030 – Environmental Humanities
Course description
Course content
The Environmental Humanities is a new, emerging area of interdisciplinary studies of the environmental and climate crisis. It is designed to both critically inspect the current planetary predicament as the crisis of environmental imagination which demands a pivotal paradigm shift in our values, habits, routines and representations.
The course invites students to examine environmental topics through the lens of philosophy and ethics, literary traditions, history, media, landscape studies and the arts. The course covers thus a range of research areas, such as environmental history and anthropology; climate and environmental ethics; literature/media studies, studies of the nexus environment-religion-ideology; studies of landscape and identity.