ABSTRACT
Environmental humanities scholarship theorizes and interrogates ways of thinking, being, and doing that have shaped socioenvironmental pasts and present, and which must be engaged for inclusive human futures. Thinking with the environmental humanities, particularly in its most critical expressions, opens abundant possibilities for content-based instruction (CBI) in modern languages. This chapter makes an argument for environmental humanities approaches to college, content-based foreign language education. It introduces key concepts from the field and gives examples of their application and insights to the design and praxis of teaching and learning in an advanced Spanish course based on community-engaged learning, a high-impact educational practice in which students learn with community partners. This approach deepens students’ awareness about sociospatial dynamics at a global, hemispheric, local, and personal level where sustainability actions can happen.
