{"id":8655,"date":"2025-09-26T15:52:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T19:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/programs\/?post_type=clarku_program&p=8655"},"modified":"2025-10-14T08:58:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:58:37","slug":"environmental-humanities","status":"publish","type":"clarku_program","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/programs\/concentration\/environmental-humanities\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Humanities Concentration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Humanities for a changing planet<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The field of environmental humanities explores the role of culture, value, and meaning in shaping the human relationship to the environment. Drawing on perspectives from literature, history, philosophy, visual culture, and digital media, the concentration foregrounds the importance of humanities disciplines to understanding and responding to the climate crisis, and related challenges facing a planet under duress. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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The environmental humanities concentration builds on the interdisciplinary strengths at Clark, where faculty in the social and natural sciences and the humanities have long been recognized for their research in climate change, sustainability, and conservation. Courses examine the systems of knowledge that orient humans to the environment \u2014 considering, as examples, topics such as wilderness, waste, animals, and extinction \u2014 while also investigating broader intersections with colonial histories, constructions of self and identity, and transnational politics and culture. With a decided focus on history, narrative, and storytelling, the humanities offer a means to imagine and cultivate more ethical relationships both with the nonhuman world and within human communities themselves. Students in all fields are welcome and may find the concentration to be a valuable supplement to their studies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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School of Climate, Environment, and Society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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