| Title: | Reading Green |
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| Course Section Number: | FRT-101-02 |
| Department: | Freshman Tutorial |
| Description: | FACE TO FACE COURSE FRT-101-02: Reading Green: Literature and The Environment Karen Quandt teaches French in the Department of Modern Languages. She is a voracious reader who studies art in all of its forms: poetry, painting, music.you name it! She is an amateur bird watcher and enjoys visiting trails and parks with her husband and their two young boys. She loves to travel and experience new locales, but she knows that her favorite place will always be Paris! The scope of this course emulates Charles Darwin's "tree of life" as it proposes to explore a network of texts across time and place (primarily in the Western canon) that are all rooted in a profound questioning of the human relationship to nature. Is there an unbridgeable gap between humans and nature? Do we have the right to interfere with nature's processes? Have industry and technology rendered nature completely alien to us? Literature is a unique meeting place of the natural environment and the creative imagination that allows us to explore these challenging questions. Examining the legacy of myth in our understanding of nature, the cultural impact of science and industry, the environmental catastrophes that result from nuclear power and warfare, as well as dystopian visions of a world rid of nature, we will consider how literature from all periods and places calls us to reexamine how we interact with and treat the earth. In certain instances, we will read excerpts of non-fiction and consider how nature or cataclysmic assaults on nature inspire the human imagination toward the poetic or fictional. Readings will be supplemented by relevant articles or news pieces that address contemporary environmental concerns, and films will also be included. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | August 12, 2020 |
| End Date: | November 24, 2020 |
| Meeting Information: |
08/13/2020-11/24/2020 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 09:45AM - 11:00AM, Trippet Hall, Room 123
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| Faculty: | Quandt, Karen |
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