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Class number:
3280
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Title: Plants in Literature and Film |
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Department: English |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: Yes |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
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Current enrollment: 14 |
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Available seats: 0 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 3, 2024 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 18, 2024 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM, 115V - 103 |
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Instructor(s): Bergren, Katherine |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement |
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Note: For majors enrolled before December 2023, this course fulfills the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written between 1700-1900. For majors enrolled after January 2024, this course fulfills the post 1800 requirement or may be an elective/additional literature or film course. |
Course Description:
This course engages with the plant world through novels, poetry, philosophy, comics, and film. This approach might strike us as esoteric, but it would not have seemed so in the nineteenth century. We will track major trends in the human understanding of plants, beginning in the Romantic era - when poets were eager to consider the line between the plant and animal kingdoms - and ending in the twentieth century - when popular culture was more likely to categorize plants as monstrous and 'other.' In rethinking the being and meaning of plants we will necessarily revisit the idea of 'the human' and 'the animal,' employing these categories while attending to borderline cases where their utility falters. |