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Interdisciplinary Minors


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Arts and the Environment

An interdisciplinary minor requiring at least 24 credits in which the student will creatively confront the global environmental crisis. Students minoring in this field will combine knowledge obtained about the physical and social environment with experience acquired from immersion in various artistic and creative endeavors to imagine and construct possible solutions to contemporary environmental problems. The synthesis course, LS 301 Envisioning Environmental Futures, should be taken as the culminating experience for the minor.  The minor coordinator is Professor Amara Geffen, and the minor is administered by Professors Eric Pallant and Amara Geffen.


The Green Room of the Avtex Plant in Crawford County Industrial Park was unveiled in Spring 2001. Design and decoration of this workers' break room was a project of Arts and Environment students working through CEED.

Click to enlarge the mural by Laura Penman. Read more in a story by John Nagy for stateline.org

Course Requirements:

Take

  • Environmental Science 110 Introduction to Environmental Science
  • Art 156 Introduction to Studio Art: Art and the Environment.
Note: If you are an ES or Art major please see the coordinator of the minor to find a suitable alternate to these classes, which are required for the major.

Choose at least one course from each of the following three categories:

  1. Scientific Perspectives
    • Bio 040 Plants and Society
    • Bio 071 Biotechnology
    • Bio 077 Principles of Bio
    • Bio 220 Organismal Physiology/Ecology
    • Bio 330 Ecology
    • Bio 346 Wetlands
    • Bio 335 Conservation Biology
    • ES 210 Principles of Environmental Analysis
    • ES 320 Threatened Ecosystems of the World
    • Geo 108 Environmental Geology
    • Geo 110 Physical Geology

     

  2. Social Issues
    • Art 222 Nature and Society
    • Econ 112 Wealth, Poverty and Power in America
    • Eco 108 Intro to Environmental Economics
    • Eco 231 Environmental and Resources Management
    • ES 350 Ecological Economics
    • ES 352 Culture and Environment
    • History 318 Environmental Thought in Modern Europe
    • Philosophy 340 Environmental Philosophies
    • Political Science 347 Environmental Regulation and the State

     

  3. Creative Arts
    • Art 151 Drawing I (offered every semester)
    • Art 155 Intro to Studio Art: The Creative Process (fall 2003)
    • Art 165 Ceramics I (offered every semester)
    • Art 171 Photography I (offered every semester)
    • Art 261 Sculpture I (spring 2004)
    • Communication Arts 230 Production Design I
    • Communication Arts 250 Creative Dramatics
    • CommArts 290 Audio Visual Production
    • English 205 Writing Fiction
    • English 206 Writing Poetry
    • English 209 Writing About Culture and Place
    • English 210 Writing About the Environment

Take

  • Liberal Studies 301 Envisioning Environmental Futures. (fall 2003 - offered in alternative years)

Requirements Updated April 2001

 

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