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Mar 28, 2024
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ENST 455 - Environmental Literature Description: Survey of literary works that thematically explore human relationships with place and environment. Sampling of various themes and genres, with a focus on Pacific Northwest.
Credits: (3)
Learner Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Read and to savor a sampling of some of this country’s finest creative writing
- Appreciate the variety and depth of aesthetic reaction to the environment
- Understand the historical development of American attitudes toward nature
- Come to terms with your own feelings about the natural world
- Freely express your own relationship with nature through the writing of poetry
- Elucidate the inherent cultural bias of human-environment relationships
- View the environmental debate within the framework of political ecology
- See that ultimately, humans construct the concept of nature as a dynamic ground
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