Catalog Course Description

This integrative course, taught by a humanities professor and a science professor, surveys current global environmental issues; introduces the basic intellectual tools of environmental science; investigates ways the human relationship to nature has been imagined in literary and philosophical traditions; and examines how tools of scientific and literary analysis; scientific method, and imaginative thinking can clarify what is at stake in environmental issues and ecological citizenship.

Spring Term

7.5 hours of Outside Work Hours per week and 1.5 hours of The exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week and 3 hours of Instructor presentation of course materials per week.

Fall Term

7.5 hours of Outside Work Hours per week and 1.5 hours of The exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week and 3 hours of Instructor presentation of course materials per week.