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| EN 2219 - Environmental Literatures |
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Associated Term:
2023/24 Academic Session
Learning Objectives: The aim of this course is to provide an introduction into the study of eco-criticism and environmental literatures. The crises of climate change generate new perspectives on contemporary and historical literatures. In this course students will examine a range of literary and theoretical texts towards an understanding of the development and current issues in this growing interdisciplinary area of study. The course will take a thematic rather than an historical approach to the investigation of its materials so as to allow for a greater juxtaposition between contemporary arguments and previous thought in this emerging disciplinary matrix. It will examine topics such as the representation of landscape, pastoral, the social production of space, pollution, climate change, nature/anti-nature writing and recent work on interspecies relations. Examples for discussion will be drawn from a range of genres that will include: fiction, non-fiction, poetry and film.
Learning Outcomes:
1. have an overview of key ideas and debates in environmental literatures and eco-criticism.
2. identify and discuss these ideas and issues in relation to a range of relevant texts.
3. make critical comparisons of these works across time periods .
4. analyse a range of texts in relation to a range of works in other disciplines and genres.
5. produce a presentation that develops the student's specific interests in this area.
6. write an essay which demonstrates an engagement with the literatures of the course syllabus.
Required Materials: Click here for the reading list system Technical Requirements: The total number of notional learning hours associated with course are 150. These will normally be broken down as follows: 20 hour(s) of Seminars across 10 week(s) 130 hour(s) of Guided Independent Study Formative Assessment: formative essay (formative) class presentation summative essay Summative Assessment: Essay (3500 Words) - 100% |
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