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| Students will explore the environmental humanities as a discipline emerging out of a necessity to bring another framework of critical thinking and expression to problems around ecological issues. Students will begin by comparing and contrasting a dominant framework that views our ecological crises as a problem to be solved by scientific knowledge and technology, with a new, emerging framework offered by the environmental humanities that views our ecological crises as problems to be solved by understanding cultural differences, historical events, worldviews, values, ethics, and socioeconomic inequality. Under this framework, science, technology, and policy are shaped by these factors and though needed are recognized as being inadequate for addressing environmental crises. To facilitate this exploration, each student will take on an environmental narrative project of their design (e.g., creative writing, art, music, sculpture, film) that unsettles dominant narratives or envisions new bridge-building narrative in their professions, communities, or personal lives. |
