Nature and Environmental Writers

Catalog description

This course is a literature course with atheme; it introduces the student to aselection of nature and environmentalwriters. The class examines nature writingas a unique form of writing. There are many themes to examine within this genre-how wehumans find our “place” in nature and whatthat means to us, how science relates toliterature and art, the complex relationship between wildness and civilization, as well as spiritual issues and environmental issues and responsibilities.