ENGL 611 - Studies in Environmental Humanities

Credit(s): 3-6

STUDIES IN ENVIR HUMANITIES
Component: Discussion
What tools for this inquiry are offered by the environmental humanities (EH)? Orbiting around this central question, this course explores approaches to environmental problems that recognize “nature” and “culture” as inseparable, and that foreground questions of justice, uneven risk, and intersections between environmental change and globalization. Topics will include postcolonial and Black ecologies, the Anthropocene idea and its discontents, nuclear colonialism, Indigenous apocalypse narratives, body/environment relations, challenges of interdisciplinary dialogue, energy humanities and petro-culture, climate fiction, weather, water, animals, and the politics of food. Reading across disciplinary and generic boundaries, we will think through the relationships between these disciplines and genres, in different ways.
Repeatable for Credit: Y Allowed Units: 6 Multiple Term Enrollment: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring