Doctor of Arts in Ecopsychology & Environmental Humanities

The Doctor of Arts is a terminal degree designed to equip students with advanced ecological knowledge, psychological capacities, and communication skills necessary to effect change in human narratives and their resulting practices toward each other and the planet. The DA degree is an application-focused transcontextual approach to interrelated ecological, social, and economic problems that affect Earth's life and habitats.

An education in Ecopsychology & Environmental Humanities includes interconnected ecological and psychological literacy, human narratives and resulting practices affecting all ecologies (nature human and nature cultures), policy-making interventions, ecological and social justice, and interrelated economic/social/ecological practices that affect climate and livability with Earth. Graduates of the Doctor of Arts program are trained to think anew, envisage and imagine through difference (as opposed to sameness) in their practice ecology.

Viridis Graduate Institute, a distinctly different distance education institute, offers degrees in Ecopsychology and Environmental Humanities. Viridis was founded in 2011 by Dr. Lori Pye and a dedicated group of educators, who brought together the sciences and humanities in a creative, innovative, and timely curricula. Viridis educational programs, designed to offer an ecological and psychological education, focus on changing narratives underpinning destructive behavior and practices toward all life forms and the planet.