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Class number:
3167
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Title: Writing a Crisis |
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Department: Humanities Gateway |
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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 19 |
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Current enrollment: 17 |
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Available seats: 2 |
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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: TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM, SH - N128 |
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Instructor(s): Bergren, Katherine |
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Prerequisite(s): Only students in the Humanities Gateway Program are allowed to enroll in this course. |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement |
Course Description:
Certain types of writing tend to strike us as especially appropriate for environmental activism: meditative essays about lost landscapes, harrowing polemics about the urgency of immediate action, carefully-reported journalism about the quiet heroism of climate scientists. This course moves beyond such familiar forms to investigate how genres like satire and parody, science fiction and performance art provide alternative models for thinking about contemporary environmental crisis and action. At its root, this course is about how reading and writing affect one's engagement with the natural world, and how they can constitute environmental activism. Together, we will examine what is at stake in the craft of environmental writer-activists, and experiment with various media in translating our ideas and fears into artistic form. |