SF-1192 Dark Ecologies
Ecological awareness forces us to think and feel at multiple scales, scales that disorient normative concepts such as present, life, human, nature, thing, thought, and logic. In this course, we will use the ecocritical framework of Dark Ecology to interpret literary texts, our everyday reality, and to mediate our understanding of current environmental debates. A holistic issue well investigate throughout the course is the role that the arts can play in heightening our awareness of the ecological challenges we face today and in promoting environmental advocacy. Some of the questions well address include the root causes of our environmental crisis, whether anthropocentric and/or humanist subjectivity is adequate (or increasingly problematic) in the face of contemporary ecological problems, the extent to which identity politics (including concepts of race, class, gender, sexual orientation and species) can inform our understanding of environmental debates, and the issue of technologys impact on how we think about nature today.
Prerequisite
Student has satisfied all of the following Academic Unit (Computed) in the selection list Advertising Public Relations and Social Media, Art and Design, Biology, Biology and Radiation Sciences, Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Communication Journalism and Media, Economics, English, Environmental Science and Studies, History Language and Global Culture, INTO College of Arts and Sciences, Math and Computer Science, Medical Dosimetry, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science and Legal Studies, Psychology, Radiation Sciences, Sociology and Criminal Justice ... And Student has satisfied all of the following Latest Class Standing in the selection list Freshman