Environment in the Literary and Visual Arts
Environment in the Literary and Visual Arts
Concentration Adviser: Jane Costlow
This concentration allows students to focus on particular literary and/or visual approaches to the human place in the environment (for example, how a particular lyric poet or photographer has seen and represented the natural world), or to focus on a range of literary and/or visual approaches to a particular aspect of the environment (how Ktaadn was depicted and written about in the 19th century, or how urban nature is represented by contemporary American writers). Students who elect this concentration should have completed several other courses outside these requirements, in the historical or cultural contexts and in the methods of analysis germane to this concentration. Consultation with instructors is essential.
This concentration is designed by the student no later than his or her sophomore year, in consultation with, and by the approval of, Professor Jane Costlow.
The design of the concentration must meet the following criteria:
- a coherent five courses, six if a necessary prerequisite for a course is involved
- the courses must focus on at least two different cultures, or include two different literary genres, or two different visual media, or a literary genre and a visual medium, and should include a course in literary, visual or cultural theory
- one of the courses must be a seminar
- one of the five courses may be an independent course (360 only).
Courses that count for the fourth course (200- or 300-level) requirement within the core:
ENVR 240 Water and Watersheds
AN/ES 242 Environment, Human Rights, and Indigenous Peoples
ENVR 310 Soils
AN/ES 337 Social Movements, NGOs, and the Environment
Concentration Requirements:
Current courses which usually are available for this concentration include (but are not limited to):
ENVR 213 Reading the Watershed
ES/RU 216 Nature in Russian Culture
ES 227 Catastrophes and Hope
INDS 220 Afroambiente: Writing a Black Environment
PLTC 243 Politics and Literature
AVC 285 Renaissance and Post-Renaissance Gardens and Landscape Architecture
AVC 286 Romantic Landscape Painting
ES/JA 290 Nature in East Asian Literature
ENG 295 Critical Theory
AVC 293 African Photography: Representations of Africa
ENVR 334 The Question of the Animal
ENVR 348 Nature and the Novel
ES/JA 320 Haiku and Nature in Japan
AC/EN 395C Frontier and Border in U.S. Literature
ENG 395O Poetry and Place
AVC 377A. Picturesque Suburbia
ENG 395K. The Arctic Sublime.
AV/ES s15. Photographing the Landscape
From time to time special course offerings are listed.