EH集中强调人文，艺术和社会科学不仅在解决环境问题方面发挥重要作用，而且在理解这些问题如何产生并重新定义以改善环境成果方面也可以发挥重要作用。所有人类都是讲故事的人。其中包括环境科学家，他们的故事基于分析方法。环境人文科学探索了各种文化中的人们如何构建关于环境及其与人类的关系的叙事，以及这些叙事如何影响他们在世界上的行动。探索文学，艺术，道德和文化等​​主题的课程可以帮助学生理解驱动人类行为的基本价值观和信念体系。环境人文学科专为那些喜欢历史，伦理学，美学，文学，社会学和人类学等学科的学生而设计，他们想知
The Environmental Humanities (EH) concentration emphasizes the important role the humanities, arts, and interpretive social sciences can play not just in producing solutions to environmental problems but in understanding how those problems arose and reframing them to improve environmental outcomes. All humans, including environmental scientists, engage in the arts of imagination, narration, reflection, and persuasion that lie at the core of humanistic fields of study. The environmental humanities explore how the environment is constructed and represented in relation to humans, and how these divergent visions impact both knowledge and action. Courses exploring subjects such as art, culture, ethics, history, and literature can help students appreciate the underlying values and belief systems that drive much of human behavior vis-à-vis the biological and geo-physical systems that we inhabit and transform.<br>The Environmental Humanities concentration is designed for students who wonder why so many innovative, promising scientific and technical solutions to environmental problems have foundered in particular social, cultural, and political contexts-and are interested in learning how to mobilize humanistic knowledges and skills to ensure more sustainable and livable futures.