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Class number:
2865
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Title: New Theories of Environmentali |
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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: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 15 |
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Current enrollment: 10 |
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Available seats: 5 |
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Start date: Monday, January 31, 2022 |
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End date: Monday, May 16, 2022 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM, 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 & Wellness: Civic & Environ Eng |
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Note: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing critical reflection and the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written post-1900. |
Course Description:
This course contextualizes the environmental movement in post-World War II America. Together we will consider how gender, race, sexuality, class, and disability affect human relationships to natural and built environments, and how those relationships are represented. The course centers on a small roster of environmental thinkers, including Ursula Heise, Rob Nixon, Stacy Alaimo, and Elizabeth DeLoughrey, whom we will read closely, repeatedly, and in conjunction with several contemporary novels. In the spirit of Lawrence Buell's assertion that
"environmental crisis involves a crisis of the imagination," the course is invested in discourses of both science and the humanities, and students with no previous college-level experience in English are welcome. |