CHEM-347 The Road to Silent Spring and Beyond: The Intersections of Environmental Chemistry and Literature

An exploration of how environmental chemistry shapes environmental literature. Course material will include primary chemical sources as well as essays, novels, short stories, film, and other environmental literature. This course will look at both natural environmental chemistry as well as the chemistry of anthropogenic changes and compounds, such as pesticides. Students will interrogate and discuss these connections then use them to discover their own intersections with chemistry and literature.

Maximum Enrollment

Speaking-Intensive (20)

(Speaking Intensive.)

Credits

1

Cross Listed Courses

ENVST-347

Prerequisite

One 200-level Environmental Studies or Chemistry course