WTNG 303 - Environmental Rhetoric

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Roger Williams University

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Prerequisite: Successful completion (C- or higher) of WTNG 102 and atleast sophomore standing or concent of instructorFulfills a course requirement in the Professional and Public Writing CoreConcentration and MinorThis course will examine important writers and thinkers from HenryDavid Thoreau to William McKibben for ways in which argumentsabout human/nature relationships have evolved. The tensions inthese relationships, this course argues, have forged environmentalisminto a counter-hegemonic discourse that challenges fundamentalassumptions about the centrality of man, the role and value of"progress," and the utility of nature.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.rwu.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 253-1040

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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