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Ecocriticism: Environmental Criticism & Literature

Course Overview

Date / Time Location Credits Minimium Tuition*
1/27/25 - 5/14/25
Tu 4p.m. – 6:45p.m.		 W06-0094 3 $2557 (guest students)
Date
1/27/25 - 5/14/25
Time
Tu 4p.m. – 6:45p.m.
Location
W06-0094
Credits
3
Min. Tuition*
$2557 (guest students)

Description

Ecocriticism is an emerging branch of literary criticism concerned with the relationships between literature and the physical world. This course will explore how theoretical understandings of the environment can be brought to literature of the environment. In the seminar students will develop a critical vocabulary and range of methodologies for discussing such topics as: the cultural construction of nature; the poetics and politics of nature writing; land as readable text; the idea of wilderness; land as economic and spiritual resource; Native American literature; "green" pedagogy; sense of place; nature and community; gender and nature; ecofeminism; and the relationship of natural science and nature writing.

This course is closed for registration.

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Course Details

Session

Regular Academic Session

Class Dates

1/27/2025 - 5/14/2025

Location

W06-0094

Enrolled / Capacity

2 / 15

Status

Closed

Instructor

Patrick Barron

Tuition*

$2557 (guest students)

* The tuition estimate is based on minimum, single-course cost to a new student who is a Massachusetts resident and not enrolled in a multi-course program. State residency, online/in person modality, and matriculation to a degree program may affect cost.

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