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Subject: English (UG) (ENGL)
CRN: 21131
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: John Roach Center 301
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
Pre-1900 American Lit.
Sustainability (SUST)
Writing to learn
This course is about how 19th c. American literary traditions use Gothic tropes and modes to represent an idea of nature and the natural world. While we often think of “nature writing” as having a positive emotional orientation to human/nature relationships (in which safe exposure to wildness heals and refreshes our spirit, natural resources support human endeavors, and we do our best to use these resources wisely) such pastoralism masks darker truths. For example, the wallpaper in The Yellow Wallpaper looks like convulsing mushrooms and wallowing seaweeds. Frederick Douglass repeatedly uses images of being trapped in the earth to describe his despair while enslaved. In Poe’s famous story, Usher thinks it is stones and mold that cause his madness, and cursed mansions tend to collapse into lakes and oceans in Southern Gothic stories. With these and other examples in mind, we will turn our attention to a counter-tradition of nature writing in which negative emotional states prevail: fear, dread, even hate. In our readings of these and other “ecogothic” texts we will attend to a range of 19th c. contexts including: new ideas about the earth in geology and geography, claims about human nature in sexology, psychology, and scientific racism; mining and other extractive industries; and political movements like abolitionism, feminism, and animal rights. This course satisfies an Integration in the Humanities and the Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice core requirements, as well as a WAC Writing to Learn requirement. It also counts for the Sustainability minor. NOTE: This is a cross-listed course with Environmental Studies; there are 17 seats on the ENGL 371 side and three seats on the ENVR 298-L01 side. Prerequisite: ENGL 106, 121, or 190.
4 Credits
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1:30 pm |
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Subject: English (UG) (ENGL)
CRN: 21132
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: John Roach Center 301
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
Environmental Studies Approved
Sustainability (SUST)
Writing to learn
This course explores the ways in which literature and film represent the natural world, engage with ecological concerns like the environmental implications of AI, and invite us to reimagine our relationship with our planet. From Indigenous worldviews to climate change to speculative futures, we’ll examine how narrative forms—novels, poetry, memoirs, and cinema—help us make sense of our planet. Our texts will include voices from the Global South to shed light on how environmental issues intersect with colonial histories. Along the way, we’ll also engage with key concepts such as the Anthropocene, ecofeminism, and postcolonial ecologies. Students will develop critical tools to analyze narratives, reflect on what it means to live ethically and imaginatively in a time of environmental uncertainty, and consider how storytelling can inspire awareness, resistance, and change. And, of course, there will always be room for wonder—for recognizing the amazing gift that is our planet. We will begin with a book that captures this wonder: Samantha Harvey’s ORBITAL. Other texts for the semester may include Octavia Butler’s PARABLE OF THE SOWER, Amitav Ghosh’s THE HUNGRY TIDE, Robin Wall Kimmerer's BRAIDING SWEETGRASS, and Mai Der Vang's PRIMORDIAL. This course satisfies an Integration in the Humanities requirement and a WAC Writing to Learn requirement. Application is being made to have this course count as meeting a Sustainability requirement (approval not guaranteed). Prerequisite: ENGL 106, 121, or 190.
4 Credits
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Subject: Environmental Studies (ENVR)
CRN: 21136
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Science Hall 120
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Soc Sci Analysis
Other Requirements Met:
Faith and Praxis Minor or Cert
School of Ed Transfer Course
Sustainability (SUST)
Writing to learn
A study of the interaction of humans and the environment over time and space; a broad introduction that integrates a variety of social-science perspectives into an understanding of the environment and the relations between humans and nature. Specific topics include ecology, population, economic development, resources and sustainable development.
4 Credits
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Subject: Environmental Studies (ENVR)
CRN: 21137
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Science Hall 120
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Soc Sci Analysis
Other Requirements Met:
Faith and Praxis Minor or Cert
School of Ed Transfer Course
Sustainability (SUST)
Writing to learn
A study of the interaction of humans and the environment over time and space; a broad introduction that integrates a variety of social-science perspectives into an understanding of the environment and the relations between humans and nature. Specific topics include ecology, population, economic development, resources and sustainable development.
4 Credits
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12:15 pm |
12:15 pm |
12:15 pm |
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Subject: Environmental Studies (ENVR)
CRN: 21138
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Science Hall 127
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Soc Sci Analysis
Other Requirements Met:
Faith and Praxis Minor or Cert
School of Ed Transfer Course
Sustainability (SUST)
Writing to learn
A study of the interaction of humans and the environment over time and space; a broad introduction that integrates a variety of social-science perspectives into an understanding of the environment and the relations between humans and nature. Specific topics include ecology, population, economic development, resources and sustainable development.
4 Credits
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1:30 pm |
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Subject: Environmental Studies (ENVR)
CRN: 22506
In Person | Topics Lecture 2
St Paul: John Roach Center 301
Requirements Met:
Sustainability (SUST)
Writing to learn
This course explores the ways in which literature and film represent the natural world, engage with ecological concerns like the environmental implications of AI, and invite us to reimagine our relationship with our planet. From Indigenous worldviews to climate change to speculative futures, we’ll examine how narrative forms—novels, poetry, memoirs, and cinema—help us make sense of our planet. Our texts will include voices from the Global South to shed light on how environmental issues intersect with colonial histories. Along the way, we’ll also engage with key concepts such as the Anthropocene, ecofeminism, and postcolonial ecologies. Students will develop critical tools to analyze narratives, reflect on what it means to live ethically and imaginatively in a time of environmental uncertainty, and consider how storytelling can inspire awareness, resistance, and change. And, of course, there will always be room for wonder—for recognizing the amazing gift that is our planet. We will begin with a book that captures this wonder: Samantha Harvey’s ORBITAL. Other texts for the semester may include Octavia Butler’s PARABLE OF THE SOWER, Amitav Ghosh’s THE HUNGRY TIDE, Robin Wall Kimmerer's BRAIDING SWEETGRASS, and Mai Der Vang's PRIMORDIAL. This course satisfies an Integration in the Humanities requirement and a WAC Writing to Learn requirement. Application is being made to have this course count as meeting a Sustainability requirement (approval not guaranteed). Prerequisite: ENGL 106, 121, or 190.
4 Credits
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9:55 am |
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Subject: Environmental Studies (ENVR)
CRN: 22505
In Person | Topics Lecture 1
St Paul: John Roach Center 301
Requirements Met:
Sustainability (SUST)
Writing to learn
This course is about how 19th c. American literary traditions use Gothic tropes and modes to represent an idea of nature and the natural world. While we often think of “nature writing” as having a positive emotional orientation to human/nature relationships (in which safe exposure to wildness heals and refreshes our spirit, natural resources support human endeavors, and we do our best to use these resources wisely) such pastoralism masks darker truths. For example, the wallpaper in The Yellow Wallpaper looks like convulsing mushrooms and wallowing seaweeds. Frederick Douglass repeatedly uses images of being trapped in the earth to describe his despair while enslaved. In Poe’s famous story, Usher thinks it is stones and mold that cause his madness, and cursed mansions tend to collapse into lakes and oceans in Southern Gothic stories. With these and other examples in mind, we will turn our attention to a counter-tradition of nature writing in which negative emotional states prevail: fear, dread, even hate. In our readings of these and other “ecogothic” texts we will attend to a range of 19th c. contexts including: new ideas about the earth in geology and geography, claims about human nature in sexology, psychology, and scientific racism; mining and other extractive industries; and political movements like abolitionism, feminism, and animal rights. This course satisfies an Integration in the Humanities and the Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice core requirements, as well as a WAC Writing to Learn requirement. It also counts for the Sustainability minor. NOTE: This is a cross-listed course with English; there are three seats on the ENVR 298-L01 side and 17 seats on the ENGL 371-L01 side. Prerequisite: ENGL 106, 121, or 190.
4 Credits
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Subject: Environmental Studies (ENVR)
CRN: 21141
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: Schoenecker Center 224
Requirements Met:
Sustainability (SUST)
[Core] Signature Work
Writing in the Discipline
A capstone course that combines field experience with classroom seminar. Student teams will conduct collaborative broadly interdisciplinary analyses of selected environmental problems. Field-based projects are chosen by the students in consultation with course instructor. Classroom seminars are used for exchange of information between teams and for discussion of readings pertinent to individual research projects or, more broadly, to the interdisciplinary character of environmental problem-solving. Each team produces a major paper that examines the selected problems through humanities, natural-science and social-science lenses. This class is cross-listed with, and is equivalent to, GEOG 402. Prerequisite: ENVR151, ENVR212, plus 20 credits from the 28 required competency credits in the major need to be completed before taking ENVR 401.
4 Credits
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Subject: Environmental Science (ESCI)
CRN: 21144
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: Schoenecker Center 224
Requirements Met:
Environmental Sci. Major Appr
Sustainability (SUST)
[Core] Signature Work
Writing in the Discipline
This course is designed to fulfill the senior capstone experience in Environmental Science. It brings together students from all the environmental science concentrations (biology, chemistry, and geology) to complete interdisciplinary research projects where students can integrate the knowledge gained in their distinct, yet complementary disciplinary tracks. The course will be a mix of research and seminar format designed to give students significant opportunities to practice the methods of scholarship and modes of communication used by environmental scientists. This course should be completed in the final Spring semester prior to graduation. Four laboratory hours per week. Prerequisite: ESCI 310 or permission of instructor.
4 Credits