FR 0075 - GLOBAL FICTIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Scientists have been saying it for a while: humans have forever changed the Earth’s climate. We know that glaciers are melting, seas are rising, wildfires are raging, and hurricanes are destroying shorelines. But how do we imagine the future? As the planet gets hotter, a new genre has emerged to inspire action: climate fiction (or cli-fi). In this course - taught in English with no prerequisites - you will read literature and watch television series and films that deal with the global impact of climate change. Explore a variety of creative work from around the French-speaking world: the Caribbean, sub-Saharan and East Africa, Canada, and the Mediterranean. Joins us as we learn about the Anthropocene, environmental racism, slow violence, petrofiction, and Afrofuturism. Counts toward the Environmental Studies major, the French studies minor, the French major (as an English-language course substitute for a 1000-level course), and the French minor (as a course in English).
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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