ENGLIT 0710 - CONTEMPORARY ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the ways in which contemporary writers in English have engaged with the natural environment. We will read a range of authors, from the 1960s to the present day, to consider how they have looked critically at the human effects on ecosystems, and we will also study the interdisciplinary scholarly field of ecocriticism and its responses to such writings. Throughout, we will be attentive both to the literary qualities of writings about the environment and to their historical and political contexts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.

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