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Students seeding a garden

Examine ecological issues through art, literature, and philosophy

Students erecting a greenhouse

Explore how culture and history frame environmental problems and solutions

Students working to clean up a community garden

Build communities of regeneration and repair in disturbed ecologies

Students participating in a fermentation workshop

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

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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