(ENGL 341) Contemporary US Literature of Environmental Crises

3-4 Credits

This course addresses how contemporary US literature depicts toxic America and the environmental crises as well as the human (and other animal) tragedies that result from a variety of contemporary practices that deny connectivity to/dependence upon ecosystems. Students will engage with some of the most important novels written in the contemporary period that call readers to address human impact on the environment, to imagine alternative & less ruinous ways of being in the world, and to imagine more sustainable futures. Attribute/Distribution: CC, HE, HU, W