UCSB introduces environmental humanities minor

UC Santa Barbara introduced a new environmental humanities minor this fall which offers undergraduate students the opportunity to examine environmental issues through disciplines beyond the natural sciences. The program brings together courses from throughout the university to explore how human experiences and cultural perspectives shape environmental challenges and responses to them. The minor was developed through the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts in the College of Letters & Science and draws from 12 departments and programs spanning the humanities and social sciences as well as the sciences. Its curriculum aims to connect environmental research with fields that look at the historical and cultural dimensions of environmental change. “Climate change as a threat multiplier is something that cannot be solved from a narrow, myopic perspective,” Yanoula Athanassakis, UCSB’s director of academic initiatives and the Environmental Humanities Faculty Advisory Committee, said.

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