Learning outcomes
The Honours certificate in Environmental Humanities and Society (EHS) offers a unique opportunity to broaden your studies through coursework related to environmental topics. The certificate is aimed at students with a strong personal interest in learning more about current environmental issues and the climate crisis, and developing creative responses to these.
After completing the certificate, you will have gained:
Knowledge
- A broad multi-disciplinary understanding of environmental challenges such as biodiversity loss, the climate crisis, air pollution and emerging diseases
- Familiarity with a range of practical and theoretical approaches to environmental issues, including transdisciplinary, place-based and humanities-led methods
Skills
- Theoretical, methodological and practical skills to explore environmental issues in your own research using problem-centered, empirical and creative approaches
- Experience working collaboratively in an interdisciplinary context and leading conversations across disciplines at an early stage of your career
- Experience developing a small environmental research project using methods and mediums outside your discipline
- Experience using creative methods for communicating and presenting research on the environmental and climatic crisis to a broader audience
General competence
- Experience with working collaboratively on complex problems by drawing on and combining perspectives from multiple disciplines
- Ability to engage social and environmental issues in ways that constructively address difficult questions, centering matters of environmental justice and ethics
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