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ENG 213 - OT 1
Environmental Literature
Dr. Daniel de Paula Valentim Hutchins (Dan)
Spring Semester 2024 | 3 Credit Hours
Course Description
Official Catalogue description
This course examines literary narrative in the tradition of nature writing in English and American nonfiction prose. The study offers a humanities complement to environmental studies, which extends an interdisciplinary understanding of environment, place, and nature through a literary lens. Students will explore responses to relationships among environment, nature, and landscape in expressive forms and consider writing ecocritical approaches through journal, essay and project work.
Actual course description of what we will doing in ENG 213
Ecological awareness forces us to think and feel at multiple scales, scales that disorient our normal approaches to making sense of the world. In this course, we will experiment with various ecocritical frameworks to interpret literature, art, and our everyday reality, and to mediate our understanding of current environmental debates. One key issue we will investigate throughout the course is the role that literature and, more generally, the arts can play in heightening our awareness of the ecological challenges we face today and in promoting environmental advocacy. Some of the questions we’ll address include: what are the root causes of our environmental crisis, the extent to which identity politics (including concepts of race, class, gender, sexual orientation and species) can inform our understanding of environmental debates, the issue of technology’s impact on how we think about “nature” today, and the twinned genealogies of Romanticism and Environmentalism in the recent history of the Western World.
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