ESS208

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Graphic Literature and the Environment

Environmental Studies College of Liberal Arts

Course Subject Code

ESS

Course Number

208

Status

Active

Course Attributes

BHUM: GenEd-Breadth/Humanities, DVUS: GenEd-Diversity US, WRIT: GenEd-Writing Intensive, EMEL: Major-Engl:Literature Elective, EMES: Major-Environment Sci Elective, EMEV: Major-Env Stu/Sustain Elective, ENCW: Major-Engl:CreativeWr Elective, ENEJ: Minor-Environ Justice Elective, ENEL: Minor-Engl:Literature Elective, ENES: Minor-Environment Stu Elective, MENV: Major-Env Study/Sustainability, MEVS: Major-Environmental Science, NENJ: Minor-Environmental Justice, NENS: Minor-Environmental Studies

Course Short Title

Graphic Lit and Environment

Course Long Title

Graphic Literature and the Environment

Course Description

Using an environmental lens, introduces students to a range of literary works with a visual component—including graphic novels, short stories, memoir, biography, adaptation, and comics. Students will have the opportunity to learn strategies for visual and textual analysis, consider quandaries of representation posed by hybrid storytelling and “sequential art,” and grapple with graphic narrative. Explores questions such as: How have writer-artists imagined our environments and the human relationship to nature? How have these works responded to challenges like climate change and environmental injustice? How do race, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship shape our physical and social realities as well as our understanding of texts?

Min

4

Repeatable

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Course Restrictions

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Equivalent Course(s)

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