NARRATIVES OF NATURE (ENG 235)

Term: 2019 - Spring

Faculty

	Melanie DohertyShow MyInfo popup for Melanie Doherty
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Schedule

Tue-Thu, 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM (1/7/2019 - 5/1/2019) Location: MAIN TATE 223
Fri, 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM (5/3/2019 - 5/3/2019) Location: MAIN TATE 223

Description

235: Narratives of Nature: American Literature and Environmental Studies.
Goal: Readings will enable students to contextualize a history of environmental debates in the U.S. Students will develop and strengthen writing, discussion, and critical thinking skills.
Content: The imagined divide between nature and civilization has inspired both Manifest Destiny dreams and anxious apocalyptic nightmares throughout the history of American literature. This course will explore the role of the environment in the American literary imagination and may include not only fiction and poetry, but also science writing, nature journals, and ecocrticial/ecofeminist philosophies. Texts will help students consider how tensions between nature and technological progress play a foundational role in American culture, yet selected readings will work to complicate pat concepts of a nature/culture divide.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisites: WIS 101 or ENG 101.
Credit: 3 hours.