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Subject: English (UG) (ENGL)
CRN: 21967
Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 210
Old Core Requirements Met:
UG Core Literature/Writing
Other Requirements Met:
Sustainability (SUST)
Writing Intensive
This course will use fiction and non-fiction multi-media to explore environmental issues using an indigenous lens. We'll focus a large portion of our reading on the Native nations specific to our region, largely Anishinaabe/Ojibwe and related peoples. We'll dispel the romantic stereotype of the nature-loving Native (Disney version and the like) by a focus on Native-authored texts and responses to historic and contemporary environmental issues. In addition to reading and writing about Native literature, this course will strive to connect students to Native American food and farming and the social-ecological systems in which the stories are embedded. Off campus trips to local sites may be organized, including Dream of Wild Health (an Indigenous farm), Mashkiikii Gitigan (an Indigenous urban garden), All My Relations Art Gallery, and Two Rivers Gallery/Gatherings Cafe. We'll also have in-class conversations with Native American leaders in community environmental activism, and we may get to try our hand at some indigenous cooking as well. The writing load for this course is a minimum of 15 pages of formal revised writing. This course satisfies the Writing Across the Curriculum Writing Intensive requirement and counts towards the Sustainability minor.
4 Credits