ENGL1007: Introduction to Literature and Environment

What connection do you share with other lifeforms as well as ecosystems in a time of climate change? Do you feel hope about our changing world? In this class you will consider your relationship to other species, as well as places and habitats, through analysis of historical and contemporary texts by Black, Brown, Indigenous and white artists and thinkers, some of whom also draw upon queer perspectives. Throughout the course you will practice literary language that helps you advocate for greater awareness of nonhuman life as well as for action and change. Along the way your instructor will help you understand literature as an essential and hopeful tool that people use to reshape our own cultures and preserve biodiversity in a complex future. Because environmental literature is part of the emerging field of the environmental humanities, texts vary and could include: climate fiction, ecocinema, ecopoetics, environmental nonfiction, and other emerging forms and genres.

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