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2023 Syllabuses

Languages and literature - Climate Change and Colonialism

Contributor: Matthew Henry
Institution: University of Wyoming
Level: Undergraduate
Keywords: Racial Capitalocene, #LandBack movement, just transition

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Languages and literature - Introduction to the Environmental Humanities

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

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Languages and literature - Literature and the Environment

Contributor: Stacey Balkan
Institution: Florida Atlantic University
Level: Undergraduate
Keywords: challenging popular understandings of 'nature', 'environment', and 'wilderness', examines competing notions of 'environmentalism'

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Languages and literature - The Literature of Extraction: Reading Energy Culture

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

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Languages and literature - World-Making through Climate Fiction

Contributor: Stacey Balkan
Institution: Florida Atlantic University
Level: Undergraduate
Keywords: Cli-Fi, dystopian landscapes, creative coursework

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2022 Syllabuses

Languages and literature - The Literature of Environmental Justice

Contributor: Greta Gaard
Institution: University of Wisconsin River Falls
Level: Undergraduate
Keywords:  'just' sustainability, environmental ethics and social justice, literary studies

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Languages and literature - Imagining Race and the Environment

Contributor: Min Hyoung Song
Institution: Boston College
Level: Postgraduate
Keywords:  Indigenous, Black, Asian, and Latinx environmental discourses, capitalism, colonialism, and migration, literary case studies

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2019 Syllabuses

Theatre - Climate Plays

Contributor: Sara Warner 
Institution: Cornell University
Level: Undergraduate
Keywords: community-based plays, Living Newspapers, Story Circles

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Languages and literature - The Hottest Books: Climate Change in Fiction

Contributor: Timothy S. Miller
Institution: Florida Atlantic University
Level: Undergraduate
Keywords: Cli-Fi, multimedia reading list, 21st century fiction

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2018 Syllabuses

Languages and literature - Climate Change in Literature, Art, and Film

Contributor: Benjamin Morgan
Institution: University of Chicago
Level: Undergraduate
Keywords: film and media analysis, detailed reading list, creative coursework

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2017 Syllabuses

Languages and literature - Approaching the Anthropocene

Contributor: Nathan K. Hensley
Institution: Georgetown University
Level: Postgraduate
Keywords: human-nature distinction, traces the history of climate texts, creative coursework

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Languages and literature - Literature and Science: Climate Fiction

Contributor: Corine Tachtiris
Institution: Antioch College
Level: Undergraduate
Keywords: Cli-Fi, practical local engagement, critical thinking

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2016 Syllabuses

Languages and literature - Writing for the Social Sciences: Climate Change and Sustainability

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

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2015 Syllabuses

Film Studies - Ecomedia

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

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