FYS 085 - The Arts and the Environment

Institution:

Lafayette College

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Description:

This seminar combines poetry, music, architecture, the visual arts, and landscape theory with environmental engineering, geology, environmental law, and public policy. Core readings include classic works on environmental reflection-Thoreau, Emerson, the Romantic poets, the creative writings of Asia (particularly Haiku)-as well as contemporary writings, Wendell Berry and Wallace Stegner essays, John McPhee's account of the earth histories one can "read" by walking through the Delaware Water Gap, and Suzuki's writings on zen and the Japanese arFinger

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.lafayette.edu/

Phone Number:

(610) 330-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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