An interdisciplinary inquiry into ethics, arts, culture, and theory in relation to environmental humanities. The course will be an overview of the emerging field of environmental humanities and will draw from multiple disciplines (philosophy, history, cultural studies, and literary criticism) to better our relationship to the nonhuman world. This course is a reading and writing intensive seminar and will require extensive writing practice, journaling, fieldwork, and formal essays. While you will be presented with established ideas and trends in environmental humanities, students will also be encouraged to formulate their own approaches to the material. The instructor values projects which exhibit critical and creative thinking along with a thorough understanding of rhetorical skills. Formerly offered as EHM 202; not for credit in addition to EHM 202.