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3.00 Credits
Staff An intensive study of the works of one or two writers, as announced. (Post-1800 course.)
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3.00 Credits
S. Wider A study of the art of fiction as practiced by Edith Wharton and Henry James. Readings include their short stories, novels, and essays. Students study both the fiction they wrote and what they wrote about fiction. (Post-1800 course.)
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3.00 Credits
P. Balakian, J. Brice, P. O'Keeffe An advanced workshop in the writing of fiction, poetry, and/or creative nonfiction. Depending on the semester and the instructor, the course may be structured around a topic, a genre, or both. It will always include the study of literary texts, discussion of student work, and one-on-one conferences. Prerequisite: permission of instructor on the basis of writing samples. Preference is given to students who have already taken at least one 300-level creative writing workshop and who are majoring in English with an emphasis in creative writing. As a workshop in creative writing, this course does not fulfill the major requirement for a 400-level seminar in literature.
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3.00 Credits
P. Richards A study of the patterns of the Puritan experience as they shaped the literary structure and provided the central themes of American and African American literature from the colonial period to the late 19th century. These patterns are established through an examination of social histories, biographies, and church histories. The literary evolution of these patterns is assessed in poetry, novels, slave narratives, and other texts. (Pre-1800 course.)
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3.00 Credits
Staff Writing the honors essay. This course must be taken in addition to the eight courses required for the major. See "Honors and High Honors" above.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Individually supervised studies for students selected by the department. Prerequisite: approval of department chair.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Human society has embarked on an unparalleled, unplanned experiment with the global environment. Natural resources that support life on Earth are being exploited at an accelerated pace, and the long-term consequences of human actions are unknown. This course addresses the questions of why Earth is as it is and what influences global change. Through an interdisciplinary approach involving the natural sciences of biology, geology, and chemistry, Earth is considered as a biogeochemical system. The nature of interactions between the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the lithosphere, and the biosphere are studied. The cycles of water and nutrient elements such as carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur are studied, as well as processes operating on a smaller scale including lakes, rivers, wetlands, and forests. Global, regional, and local case studies are used to emphasize modes of current thinking and the importance of interdisciplinary research. The required credit-bearing laboratory session ENST 100L must be taken and passed concurrently with ENST 100. The laboratory teaches techniques in soil and water chemistry. These are applied to group projects that emphasize interactions between the biotic and abiotic components of local ecosystems. This course is crosslisted as CORE 127/ 127L.
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3.00 Credits
Staff This course is an introduction to the frameworks social scientists use when analyzing environmental issues. All environmental issues have social as well as physical aspects: humans affect the environment through their individual and group actions, and the environment affects humans as individuals and as members of various groups. Students in the course are introduced to the frameworks used in the social sciences, in particular economics, geography, and sociology, with the goal of being able to think analytically about environmental issues using a variety of perspectives. Case studies address contemporary environmental issues, for example air and water pollution, waste management, deforestation, management of wilderness areas, and environmental health.
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3.00 Credits
J. Kawall This course is an introduction to the field of environmental ethics. Some of the major figures and philosophies in the environmental movement will be studied and critically analyzed with a particular emphasis on the ethical reasoning and its influences on environmental policies and practices. Topics will include the historical development of the environmental movement, central debates between preservationist and conservationist ethics, intrinsic and instrumental evaluations of the natural environment and its inhabitants, animal rights and the ethical treatment of animals, shallow and deep ecological distinctions, and anthropocentric versus biocentric and ecocentric evaluations of nature. These considerations will involve the study of the arenas of environmental ethics, such as radical ecology, social ecology, ecofeminism, holism, ethical pluralism, environmental justice, traditional environmental knowledge, ethics of consumption, anti-toxics grassroots activism, and global ecological ethics. This course is crosslisted as PHIL 202.
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3.00 Credits
Staff In the wake of the environmental movement and the civil rights movement there rose a crosscurrent of issues combining problems of social justice and environmental issues. During the past two decades, this crosscurrent has swelled to produce a new social movement: the environmental justice movement. This course explores the terms and ideas of environmental justice by addressing the key issues of environmental racism, distributive justice, political and cultural representation in environmental struggles, alternative theories of justice generated from disenfranchised groups, grassroots politics, and concepts of environmental identity. These issues are introduced in the context of the U.S. environmental justice movement, and then considered in light of international contexts and global political arenas.
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