2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ENG 389 - Climate Change Literature


What stories do we tell to make sense of the increasingly erratic changes in our climate, and our part in it? Over the last three hundred years, we have repeatedly asked what it means to be “human,” to belong to the nature, or to have a will that is free from the dictates of nature. How we have answered these questions has sometimes bound us to further destruction of the earth and humanity, and at other times provided grounds for resisting extractive relations to the earth and to other beings. In this course we will read literary works about climate change, different ecological relations, and ideas of humanity. In our readings we will explore different literary narratives of ecological changes and their attendant worldviews.
Lecture
Credits: 3
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122 
2) Either ENG 204, ENG 212, ENG 213 or ENG 214 
Offered in the Spring Semester