GER 8820 is also offered in Fall 2024
GER 8820 is also offered in Fall 2022
Fall 2020 | GER 8820 Section 001: Seminar: Advanced Theory -- Ecocriticism and the Environmental Humanities (32976)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 9 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Meets With:
ENGL 8090 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Enrollment Status:
Open (5 of 10 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topic in critical thought, e.g., the Frankfurt School, hermeneutics, reception theory.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?melin005+GER8820+Fall2020 This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
- Class Description:
- Since its inception in the 1990s, ecocriticism has grown from an initial position within the interdisciplinary study of literature and environment to become part of a larger multi- and cross-disciplinary endeavor known as the environmental humanities. Working from the premise that human-environment relations are inherently bound up with one another, environmental humanities scholars approach a broad range of textual and cultural artifacts with a deep concern about the current state of environmental degradation, the rapid pace of global (and especially climate) change, and the social inequities that both drive and result from transformations in our physical environment. This team-taught graduate seminar will explore the current state of ecocriticism and the environmental humanities through readings of primary and secondary texts, guest lectures by leading scholars in the field, and video conferences with other scholars and graduate students working in this area in Europe and North America. The first half of the course will be planned in advance by the instructors, while the structure of the second half will emerge out of the needs and desires of the course participants, so that the course is responsive to the disciplinary communities represented by the participants. Potential topics include the various subfields of ecocriticism (material, empirical, affective, feminist, queer, and postcolonial), as well as broader humanistic approaches to such topics as climate fiction, environmental justice, critical animal studies, and food studies. The course will be integrated with the Environmental Humanities Initiative on campus and frame its explorations in terms of efforts to counter the ongoing "crisis in the humanities." Course activities will reflect the multiple vocational outcomes for which graduate education should prepare students. Assignments will thus include attendance and participation, weekly reading responses, leading discussion, and a final project that reflects each participant's knowledge, skills, abilities, and interests as they relate to our course material.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/32976/1209
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 9 April 2020
ClassInfo Links - Fall 2020 German Classes Taught by Charlotte Melin