Academic syllabuses on climate change and sustainability from Theatre, Languages and Literature, and Visual Arts.
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Contributor:Nathan K. Hensley Institution:Georgetown University Level:Undergraduate Keywords:the role of arts and philosophy in understanding climate change, historically-situated conceptions of the climate, draws on interdisciplinary readings
Contributor:Stacey Balkan Institution:Florida Atlantic University Level:Undergraduate Keywords:challenging popular understandings of 'nature', 'environment', and 'wilderness', examines competing notions of 'environmentalism'
Contributor:Stacey Balkan Institution:Florida Atlantic University Level:Postgraduate Keywords:examining texts through the lens of energy, energy as producing culture, looks at fiction and non-fiction texts
Contributor: Greta Gaard Institution: University of Wisconsin River Falls Level: Undergraduate Keywords: 'just' sustainability, environmental ethics and social justice, literary studies
Contributor: Min Hyoung Song Institution: Boston College Level: Postgraduate Keywords: Indigenous, Black, Asian, and Latinx environmental discourses, capitalism, colonialism, and migration, literary case studies
Contributor: Timothy S. Miller Institution: Florida Atlantic University Level: Undergraduate Keywords:Cli-Fi, multimedia reading list, 21st century fiction
Contributor: Benjamin Morgan Institution: University of Chicago Level: Undergraduate Keywords: film and media analysis, detailed reading list, creative coursework
Contributor:Nathan K. Hensley Institution:Georgetown University Level:Postgraduate Keywords:human-nature distinction, traces the history of climate texts, creative coursework
Contributor:James Donelan Institution:UC Santa Barbara Level:Undergraduate Keywords:critical appraisal of social science research, focuses on refining skills in social science writing and scholarship, research project coursework
Contributor: Alicia Carroll Institution: Auburn University Level: Undergraduate Keywords: American films with themes of nature, culture, and technology, understanding environmental discourses through film, analytical and communication skills
