New minor Environmental Humanities: sustainability, biodiversity, and the climate crisis
Humanities scholars have an important role to play in sustainability issues, students learn in Utrecht 木瓜福利影视鈥檚 . In gathering answers to burning questions about sustainability, biodiversity, and the climate crisis, their expertise is crucial.
Answering pressing issues
What does it mean to be human in a time of global environmental crisis? How can we imagine sustainable futures? How can media, culture, and the arts foster environmental awareness and action? And what can the humanities contribute to sustainable and fair transitions? These are some of the questions that students in the new Environmental Humanities minor will explore.
Students will develop new insights into the most pressing issues facing the planet and societies worldwide, and the related social, political, and cultural challenges. In an interdisciplinary, engagement-oriented programme, questions of history, sustainability, ethics, narrative and rhetoric, representation, and imagination will be addressed.
The minor leverages the expertise of scholars from across the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Geosciences, who belong to the Network for Environmental Humanities (NEH). It will start in Block 1 of the upcoming academic year (2024-2025). Registration is possible from today, until 21 June.