Overview
Description
Survey of important environmental texts, e.g., Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, Octavia Butler. How such literature changes consciousness and influences policy.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- analyze the challenging ethical conundrums of such issues as climate change, biotechnology, GMO foods, biodiversity, and ecological restoration.
- assess their own relationship to the competing ethical claims and positions within environmental movements.
- identify and summarize current scholarly conversations (e.g., challenges, opportunities, trends) that exist within conversations on environmentalism.
- produce a well-supported argument that makes an original contribution to the field and could be submitted for publication in an undergraduate journal.
- critically examine how their position within intersecting social forces impacts their worldview relative to environmental issues.
- communicate their position on an environmental issue.
- describe and synthesize various critical debates or theories about the major texts of the environmental movement.
- apply knowledge of environmental literature to their area of specialization.