New Minor in Environmental Humanities and Visual Media

FAIN: AKA-290988-23

SUNY Research Foundation, College at Oswego (Oswego, NY 13126-3501)
Tiffany Deater (Project Director: August 2022 to present)
Jarrod Hagadorn (Co Project Director: April 2023 to present)
Kamal Mohamed (Co Project Director: April 2023 to present)

A one-year faculty and curricular development project to build an environmental humanities and visual media minor  

The State University of New York (SUNY) Oswego proposes a planning project to develop a new minor, Environmental Humanities and Visual Media (EHVM). During the one-year planning period, SUNY Oswego will convene a nine-person planning team composed of two project co-directors from the humanities, one from the sciences, and an interdisciplinary group of humanities and non-humanities faculty. The team will meet at least ten times to (1) determine the content for a new introductory EVHM core course, (2) identify existing courses that will be revised to serve as additional required and elective courses for the minor, (3) develop a framework and core principles for the minor’s experiential capstone experience, (4) prepare the minor proposal for university approval, (5) design plan to recruit students, and (6) create a plan for the minor’s sustainability and growth. The project will also feature four faculty professional development workshops led by guest scholars.