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Our current climate debate might lead some to ask "Is science dead?" and others to ask "What do we really care about?" These course offerings weave together concepts of nature, culture, politics and science to shed light on how we are responding (or not responding) to fundamental changes in nature. By exploring representations of nature and the relations between human beings and nature in literature, the cluster casts a literary lens on this fundamentally interdisciplinary topic.
Courses in this Cluster (Fall 2021):
- English 125 - Writing and Academic Inquiry (Writing Climate Change) [not offered W22]
- English 244 - Introduction to Literary Journalism (Great Lakes Writers Corps Part I)
- English 290 - Representing Wildlife [not offered W22]
- English 320 - Lit & Environment (Ecological Empire: Environment and Colonialism in 19th Century British Literature)
- English 328 - Environmental Writing [not offered W22]
- English 344 - Environmental Journalism: Reporting About Science, Policy, and Public Health [not offered W22]
- English 390 - Topics in Literary Criticism and Theory (How to Save the Planet: Fictions of Climate Disaster and Preservation)
- English 447 - Modern Drama (Eco-Theatre: Staging Climate Crisis) [not offered W22]
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This course cluster may be of special interest not only to literature students, but also to students in Earth and Environmental Sciences, Anthropology, History, and Political Science.
