ENG217: Environmental LiteratureREL278: Environmental Theology (LNK 101)
Term: 2024-2025 Academic Year Fall
Schedule
Tue-Fri, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM (8/20/2024 - 12/13/2024) Location: MAIN MG 232
Tue-Fri, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM (8/20/2024 - 12/13/2024) Location: MAIN MG 232
Description
ENG 217: Environmental literature reflects our historical ties to the land and begins with the premise that humans both affect and are affected by the natural world. In this course, students encounter poetry, fiction, memoirs, and other nonfiction works that document our long relationship with nature and wilderness and the rise of ecological awareness in the 20th century. Prerequisite: ENG 112 or 112H. Meets General Education Distribution Area IV.B or VI.
REL 278: Although the peoples of the world are divided into multiple cultural and religious groupings, we share one fragile earth. In the 21st century, theology is becoming increasingly aware of this commonality, as the members of various religious groups seek within their own traditions to find both roots of our current ecological crisis and contributions to its potential resolution. This course explores what a variety of religions—both ancient and contemporary—have to say about the relationship between humans, nature, and the sac