ENVST-224 Environmental Futures
At a time of systemic environmental crisis, apocalyptic narratives saturate our lives and political discourse. How do we create something beyond? How might we create alternative visions for our collective future? Coupling environmental fiction and theory, this interdisciplinary course examines historical and contemporary narratives as sites of ethical deliberation and truth-making, which can reproduce or reframe calamity. Discussion and writing will foreground racial, gender and economic justice and draw from diverse ways of knowing to consider collective ways forward.
Standard Course (40)
Credits
1
Prerequisite
One course in Africana Studies, Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Literature and Creative Writing, or Women’s and Gender Studies.
Offered
Spring
Notes
Not open to first-year students. Senior enrollment limited to 6 students.