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University of Rochester

Environmental Humanities Program

Examine ecological issues through art, literature, and philosophy

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Explore how culture and history frame environmental problems and solutions

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Build communities of regeneration and repair in disturbed ecologies

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Investigate the cultural politics of food consumption, distribution, and production

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Course Spotlights

Take courses like Politics of Nature, History of Food, Literature and the Modern Environmental Imagination, and more.

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Student Profiles

How our current students are integrating the environmental humanities into their degree programs.

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Our Alumni

Rochester graduates are taking their environmental humanities knowledge and making the world ever better.

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Alexandria Brown ’18. © 2020 MLIVE Media Group. Used with Permission.

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‘Cracking the World Open’

Alexandria Brown ’18 says environmental humanities pointed her toward life as a
journalist and environmental justice advocate.

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