ENGL 113
Reading for the Planet
Winter 2027
Topics
- Ecocriticism
- natural history and nature writing
- pastoral and ecopoetry
- science and climate fiction
- environmental crisis.
Readings
- El Akkad, Omar. American War: A Novel. Knopf, 2017 (or any good edition).; Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. Milkweed Editions, 2015.; Le Guin, Ursula K. The Word for World is Forest. 1972. Tor Books, 2010 (or any good edition).
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Official departmental HTML course page ↗Winter 2027
- Materials note: Other readings will be provided. Source labels these as course materials; required versus recommended status is not specified. Public departmental HTML description; not necessarily a complete syllabus. Separate source variants are retained.