Environmental Humanities in Cornwall
Join our new Environmental Humanities programme in Cornwall and learn how the Humanities can bring critical insight to understanding and solving current and global problems of climate and environmental change.
You will benefit from world-class research-led teaching and will join a close-knit community of scholars and students committed to making a difference through actively engaging in the climate and environmental crisis.
- Environmental Humanities students at the Eden Project
Find out more about our BA in Environmental Humanities
Environmental Humanities is a global interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary field of study, enabling you to discover new and fresh ways of thinking and acting upon urgent environmental, ecological and societal problems. During your degree you will explore the key contribution of humanities methods (including from history, literature, creative arts, archaeology and cultural geography) to scientific and political understandings of local and global crises and challenges.
You will examine the problems and limitations of dealing with these challenges from a single disciplinary perspective and the rich potential of working together and collaboratively across disciplines. You will pursue humanities-led questions on a range of connected issues from climate change, environmental and social injustice, oceanic and aerial pollution, and global resource depletion, and will engage in critical enquiry of the narratives and representations, infrastructures and inequalities that continue to reproduce environmental and societal problems.
For more information on the Environmental Humanities programme please contact: Wendy McMahon
Collaboration with external partners
External partners involved in the Environmental Humanities programme delivery include: National Trust, Eden Project, Hypatia Trust (Penzance), National Maritime Museum (Falmouth)
