AHKR203: Introduction to the Environmental Humanities

The course AHKR203 Introduction to the Environmental Humanities provides students with the key themes, theories, methods, and discussion in the Environmental Humanities. Drawing on multiple perspectives in humanities and social science disciplines, the course provides a crucial foundation in this exciting field. It interrogates how these various approaches to the environment can help articulate, investigate and address complex environmental relationships, ecological crises, and issues in sustainability.

Through lectures, seminars, and fieldwork, the course explores cultural, historical, political, and creative engagements with the environment at local, national, and global scales. In spring 2025, we will explore topics including:

· Environmentalism and ecocriticism

· Exhibiting the environment in museums

· Feminist, queer, indigenous, and postcolonial ecologies

· Norwegian Petrocultures

· Multispecies worlds

· Environmental ethics, justice, and grief

· Creativity and activism

This course is good for those students with a strong interest in the environment, wishing to broaden their ideas and approaches, and who enjoy applying their studies to real-world discussions and issues. It will help develop skills and knowledge relevant to numerous academic and work-related areas, including working in cultural, political, and environmental institutions, and creative and communicative work.