New Master in Public Environmental Humanities

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2-year masters program for students who want to study today’s environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history

The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at UiS is starting a masters program in Public Environmental Humanities from Fall 2026. This program invites students to study environmental issues through a humanities lens—and prepare for a meaningful career to connect cultural insight with action on a local or global scale.

Visit the Greenhouse Website

This is an exciting and unique program that combines research and practice. Details about the program and the courses offered are available via the UiS masters program in Public Environmental Humanities study page. Key aspects are:

  • Combine critical thinking with hands-on engagement in every course
  • Work across humanities fields, including history, literature, museum studies, art history and religious studies
  • Put learning into action through an internship in the 4th semester that builds on a 3rd semester research project
  • Taught entirely in English
  • Free tuition for students from EU/EEA/Switzerland. Those outside that area have an affordable tuition of 60,000 NOK (approximately US$6000 / £4600) per year.

Registration for the program is open at different dates for different students, so we encourage students to be mindful of these short registration windows:

  • Non-EU/EEA citizens that did not get a bachelor’s degree in Nordic countries: Open 15 November to 1 December.
  • EU/EEA + Switzerland citizens that did not get a bachelor’s degree in Nordic countries: Open 1 February to 1 March.
  • Nordic country (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland) citizens as well as those with bachelor’s from one of those countries: Open 1 February to 15 April.

More details about registration are available via UiS admissions. Applicants must have a bachelor’s degree in a humanities or social science field.

To help students decide if this is the right program for them, we are hosting online info sessions on the following dates:

Join either information session via the registration links above.

If you have questions, email the program coordinator at PEH@uis.no

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Dolly Jørgensen is Professor of History, University of Stavanger, Norway specialising in histories of environment and technology. Her current research agenda focuses on cultural histories of animal extinction, and recently published Recovering Lost Species in the Modern Age: Histories of Longing and Belonging (MIT Press, 2019). She is co-editor-in-chief of the journal Environmental Humanities and co-directs The Greenhouse environmental humanities program area at UiS.
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