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Class number:
3303
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Title: Describing Nature |
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Department: First Year Sem & Colloq |
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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: Graded |
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Units: 1.00 |
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Current enrollment: 15 |
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Available seats: 0 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 5, 2023 |
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End date: Thursday, December 21, 2023 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: MW: 8:30AM-9:45AM, AAC - 231 |
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Instructor(s): Kete, Kathleen |
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Prerequisite(s): Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class. |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets FirstYr Seminar Requirement |
Course Description:
Description is a way of knowing our environment, and knowledge is a way of understanding. This seminar focuses on descriptive practices distinctive to the British and Irish worlds from the eighteenth century to the present. Our objective is to get to know how the natural world was understood in the past, towards expanding our vision of nature today when most of us live at several degrees of remove from the elements. We will read and discuss some of the key authors writing in this very influential tradition, and look at an important set of nature painters. We will ask how these observers have taken their experience of nature and put that experience into literary and visual form and what we might gain from emulating them. |