Dear Crit Geog folk,

Just want to let you know that the Rhode Island School of Design is launching two new Masters Programs in 2018. (See below for details). The graduate program on Nature-Culture-Sustainability Studies will combine political ecology and environmental social and political theory with engagements Anthropocene studies, eco-design, socio-technical transitions, climate change cultures and beyond. Hence it may be of interest to your undergraduate students who are looking for a more interdisciplinary environmental studies context for graduate work that can engage more fully with the politics of culture, art and design. Happy to answer any further questions & apologies in advance for cross posting.

All the best,

Damian F. White

Dean of Liberal Arts and Professor of Social Theory and Environmental Studies;

Rhode Island School of Design

2 College Street, Providence, RI 02903 USA 434-202-9159

New Book!!!!! Environments, Natures and Social Theory: Towards a Critical Hybridity

Additional info

Dear Colleagues,

In fall 2018 Rhode Island School of Design will launch two new MA programs in the interdisciplinary liberal arts. Nature–Culture–Sustainability Studies (NCSS) and Global Arts and Cultures (GAC). These programs build on RISD’s tradition of rigorous education in the humanities and social sciences to offer dynamic frameworks for critical inquiry. Emphasizing theoretical grounding and self-directed research, these 1.5-year programs invite students to produce innovative scholarship across a range of academic and professional fields.

Students in the Nature–Culture–Sustainability Studies graduate program will develop methods for addressing urgent environmental issues in relation to cultural objects and processes. They will conduct interdisciplinary research in focus areas in the environmental humanities and the environmental social sciences that include but are not limited to: Anthropocene studies, climate change cultures, post-humanisms, green urbanisms and sustainable design futures.

GAC offers a foundation in critical global studies, theories of representation, and interdisciplinary research practices in the humanities and social sciences. Students pursue hybrid research projects in such focus areas as aesthetics, politics and theory; display and exhibition cultures; material, visual and performance cultures; and modern and contemporary arts and criticism.

Led by faculty representing a wide range of backgrounds and research expertise, these programs are designed so that NCSS and GAC students work closely with mentors in multiple fields and with one another to develop reciprocal frameworks for extending critical conversations and research. Students also benefit from exposure to an immersive art and design culture and interaction with makers in RISD’s 16 art and design-based master’s programs.

Graduates of the GAC and NCSS programs will be well positioned to make vital contributions in the realms of cultural development and preservation, public policy, education, environmental advocacy, urban planning and more. They will also be poised to pursue advanced doctoral study in humanities and social science fields.

Please consider recommending these programs to current students or recent graduates with an interest in critical contemporary issues and interdisciplinary research. We are currently accepting applications through January 10, 2018, and welcome questions from potential candidates.

For more information please visit liberalartsmasters.risd.eduliberalartsmasters.risd.edu

And information on each individual Masters program can be found here.

liberalartsmasters.risd.edu/gac

liberalartsmasters.risd.edu/ncss