AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTALISMS

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Prerequisite: Not open to those with credit for LITT 3130. Open to graduate students and qualified undergraduates (those who have completed a minimum of 96 undergraduate credits with an overall GPA of at least 3.2). Qualified undergraduates must contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the required permission form. This course examines the American 'environmental imagination' by investigating the relationships between gender, race, the environment, and literature. The course will introduce ecofeminism and Critical Race Theory as a critical lenses for understanding American environmentalism. Course readings will include literary texts (nonfiction, fiction, and/or poetry) as well as writing by ecofeminists and environmental humanities scholars.