The idea of the Anthropocene – the geological Age of Man – has become widely adopted as a way of describing the entanglement of human activities and the natural world after its popularization by Paul Crutzen in 2000.  In the age of the Anthropocene, challenges arising from global environmental change are numerous: extreme weather, land and water pollution, species extinction, toxic contamination, just to name a few. These challenges are now raising concerns both from scholars both in the natural science and from the humanities and the social sciences. This course works on a growing field of Environmental Humanities. We examine works of scholars from a wide variety of disciplines including history, literature, philosophy, cultural studies, religion studies, arts.