This seminar focuses on human and more-than-human sonic engagement with environments: from musical composition, acoustic and electroacoustic sound art, and noise pollution, to bioacoustic emanations, cross-species sonic communication, sonification of environments, and sonic registers of climate and disaster. Engaging with various everyday sound-based practices — such as soundwalking and field recording — and with scholarship across the interdiscipline of the environmental humanities, we will consider pressing issues for the humanistic study of the environment, and reflect on the value and ethics of an acoustic approach. With instructor permission, this course may be open to students in non-music disciplines who are engaged in environmental humanities research.