Humanity & Nature Studies - Northland College

Humanity & Nature Studies from Northland College is a Campus Bachelor Humanities degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. Humanity & Nature Studies is a major designed for students who want to understand the complex relationships that people have with nature and, through this understanding, to make a difference in the world. Students who select the Humanity & Nature major establish a foundation for their studies through a core of courses that focus on the diverse ways humans relate, and have related, to the natural world?across time and across cultures. Building on this foundation, the major allows students to develop their studies in one of four directions. One path continues in a broadly interdisciplinary exploration of human-nature relationships that encourages students to weave together insights and methodologies from the humanities , social sciences, and natural sciences. A second track develops an Environmental Humanities emphasis that broadens and deepens the students? understanding of how humans, following primarily western traditions, have conceived of their relationships to nature over time. A third track focus on how Native American cultures conceive of and relate to nature. And, a fourth track develops an emphasis in Ecopsychology that explores the causes and psychic consequences of nature estrangement and alienation as well as teachings and cultural life-ways that promote an understanding of how to live within natural parameters that enhance ecopsychological wellness. Students who complete a major in Humanity & Nature Studies develop a sophisticated understanding of how humans construct and conceive their relationships to the natural world. The major prepares students to pursue graduate or professional studies in fields such as Environmental Law, Environmental Humanities , or psychology as well as any number of environmentally focused careers in business, education, government, industry, advertising, public policy, community planning, counseling, nature therapy, or the non-profit sector. View more details on Northland College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Humanities courses.