BA Environmental Humanities
Entry requirements
A-Level: ABB IB: 32/655 BTEC: DDM
About this course
BA in Environmental Humanities, a history degree centred on the cultural, historical, and political dimensions of environmental and climate change. Core topics include Research Methods, Fieldwork, Project Management, Accounting, Historical Research, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, and Design & Creative Practice. Students engage in practical field-based activities and collaborate with local businesses, charities, and societies. The first year covers foundational concepts through compulsory modules such as Climate Emergency! Environmental Humanities Fieldschool, Foundations of Environmental Humanities, An Introduction to Histories of Science and Environment, and Generative AI and Sustainable Futures: Ethics, Society, and Scholarship, alongside optional choices including Understanding Work and Organisations and Global Issues in Environmental Science. The second year continues with compulsory study in Critical Elements of Environmental Humanities: Cultures of Earth and Water and Environmental Humanities Field Methods. Optional modules allow students to explore diverse areas spanning business, law, politics, and historical studies such as Business Beyond Profit, Ecological Economics, A Legal Foundation for Environmental Protection, and Revolution and Abolition: History and Legacies of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
Modules
- Climate Emergency! Environmental Humanities Fieldschool
- Foundations of Environmental Humanities
- An Introduction to Histories of Science and Environment
- Generative AI and Sustainable Futures: Ethics, Society, and Scholarship
- Understanding Work and Organisations
- Global Issues in Environmental Science
- Historical Sources and Skills: Microhistory and History from Below
- Public History
- New Approaches to History
- European History: Politics and Society
- Global History: Twentieth Century Transformations
- A Legal Foundation for Environmental Protection
- Power, Inequality and Global Justice
- Critical Elements of Environmental Humanities: Cultures of Earth and Water
- Environmental Humanities Field Methods
- Business Beyond Profit
- Ecological Economics
- Circular Enterprise Economy
- Green Consultants
- Waste and Society
- People and Nature
- Apocalyptic Narratives: Disaster Writing
- Ecology and Empire
- Art and Archaeology in Post-Colonial Nations
- Stolen Histories: Colonialism, Looting, and the Illicit Trade of Cultural Heritage
- The Occult in Victorian Britain
- Germany 1500-Present: Cultural and Political Histories
- Humanities in the Workplace (Penryn)
- Enlightenment and the Age of Reason: Philosophy, Politics, Society
- Revolution and Abolition: History and Legacies of the Atlantic Slave Trade
- Environmental Regulation and Redress
- Security Studies
- Introduction to Postcolonialism
- Political Geographies: Local to Global
- Politics of Gender, Sex and Sexuality
- Politics, Policy and Economics