ENGL 811 - Special Topics in Environmental Humanities

Credit(s): 3-6

SPECIAL TOPICS IN EH
Component: Discussion
How have human relationships to the non-human world changed over time? Why do we have environmental problems? What are their causes? Which groups are most vulnerable to environmental issues and why do these injustices persist? What shapes our ideas about relationships between humans and their environments? How does narrative shape our ideas about the “human” and interrogate its global impacts? Orbiting around these central questions, 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. 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