ENGL 274A: |
American Cultures and Global Contexts
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Global Ecologies |
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| Fall 2007 |
| Instructor: Stephanie LeMenager |
| Meets on: F 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM SH 2617 |
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing |
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| This is the first in a three-quarter, in-progress course (274A, B, then C) in which a final grade will be assigned after the completion of English 274C. |
| The theme of this year's course will be "Global Ecologies." We will read a series of critical, theoretical, and fictional texts addressing ecological alternatives to global capitalism, global resource exploitation (including the exploitation of laborers denied human rights and standing as human), the discourses of global warming and problems of imagining/representing the biosphere in literature and film as well as politics and science. Students will be expected to offer one oral presentation suitable to be presented at a conference that will grow out of this course, and to complete a fifteen-to-twenty page paper. The final paper can be a revision and extension of the shorter conference paper, and students taking the class pass/no credit are not required to submit a final paper. The course convenes ten times over the course of the year and features guest speakers/discussion leaders from Earth Sciences, Political Science, and Black Studies. *Please note that you can now re-take this course, if you have taken the 274 series with another professor.* |
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