ENGL 122NE: |
Cultural Representations: Nature and the Environment
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Literature in the Era of Environmentalism |
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| Spring 2009 |
| Instructor: Stephanie LeMenager |
| Meets on: MW 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM GIRV 1119 |
| Prerequisites: Writing 2, 50, or 109; English 10; or upper division standing |
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| Satisfies a GE area G and a Writing requirement |
| http://acc.english.ucsb.edu/courses/acc_overview.asp?CourseID=314 |
| This course is cross-listed with Environmental Studies 122NE |
| This course approaches environmentalism as an aspect of culture and imagination as well as a political movement. Our archive for the course includes novels, films, poetry, and your local mall (more about that for those enrolled). I date contemporary environmentalism to nuclear-fallout anxieties of the 1950s, though we will read one earlier twentieth-century conservationist treatise. Featured authors include Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, E.O. Wilson, Wendell Berry, Philip K.Dick, A.R. Ammons, Michael Pollan, and Karen Tei Yamashita. Featured films include On the Beach, Blue Planet, and Manufactured Landscapes. |
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