WRIT 3315 is also offered in Spring 2025
WRIT 3315 is also offered in Spring 2024
WRIT 3315 is also offered in Spring 2023
WRIT 3315 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2024 | WRIT 3315 Section 001: Writing on Issues of Land and the Environment (53160)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Enrollment Requirements:
- soph or jr or sr
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 120
- Enrollment Status:
Closed (24 of 24 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course explores how written texts help shape understandings of the land in the U.S. Students read and analyze historical texts that have contributed to colonialist understandings of nature and the land. Students will study how the rhetorical strategies of such texts helped to form exploitive relations with the land and enact violence against indigenous peoples. Historical and current texts written by native peoples provide a counter-narrative to the myth of progress. Emphasis in the course is placed on analyzing texts with an eye toward setting the ground for conversations aimed at achieving sustainability and justice. Students will also study how written texts are composed within material contexts that contribute to their understanding.
- Class Description:
- Land in America as idea and as actual space. History of cultural values and the meanings land holds for us. Contrasting views of land, especially those of certain Native American peoples. Rise of the conservation movement and the urbanization of U.S. space.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53160/1243
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 December 2008
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