| Course Title: Reading and Writing in the World |
| Start Date: 09/04/2019 End Date: 12/17/2019 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2019 |
| Description: An introduction to reading and writing about "environment", this seminar will attempt an exchange across distinct approaches to observing and describing the world around us. Do lenses of culture, discipline, and gender impact how we see and experience nature, environment, and place? Course work will include reading such authors as N. Scott Momaday, Jamaica Kincaid, Leslie Marmon Silko, Mary Oliver, Terry Tempest Williams, Wendell Berry, Henry David Thoreau, Frederck Douglass; and many others; field trips; and writing assignments--weekly field notes and journals, analytical papers, and personal essays. |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities , WI - Writing-Intensive |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Lauret Savoy | 413-538-2125 | lsavoy@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 09/04/2019 - 12/17/2019 | Seminar | Tuesday | 01:30PM - 04:20PM | CLAP - Clapp Laboratory | 327 | Weekly |
| Permission of the Instructor is required of all students who wish to register. | ||
| Requisite Courses | ||
| None |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| ENVST-CRSE | ENVST-EL: Env Studies Electives | This course is an approved elective for the Environmental Studies major and minor. |
| ENVST-HUM | ENVST-HUM: Env Studies pre-2024 Minor - Humanities | This course has been approved to count towards the Environmental Studies minor Humanities area. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| ENVST-267-01 Reading & Writing in the World |
| ENGL-267-01 Reading & Writing in the World |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Closed | Capacity: 16 | Enrollment: 17 | Available: 0 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| To be determined. |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is NOT the complete book list for this class. |