AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTALISMS

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Not open to those with credit for AMST 5039. American Literature course. 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.