Jun 30, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
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ENG 3300 - Ecological Discourses in English Studies
Explores the discourses, theories and practices of ecologically-oriented movements, genres, and intellectual areas that are influencing English Studies. Examines a range of ecological positions, including mainstream environmentalism, deep ecology, ecofeminism, and social ecology. Our method will be to discuss and practice criticism of literary and cultural texts, including rhetorical studies of ecological texts, rhetoric, and popular culture expression. Course study will employ rhetorical theories as a productive tool for identifying recurring motifs, conflicts, concepts, and material realities at stake in artistic and rhetorical expressions about the ecology and human relations within it, and how writers and film makers make strategic appeals to specific audiences. Topics may include issues of representing nature, the separation of nature and culture, relationships between place and identity, issues of development, technology, indigenous cultures, and environmental justice. Our readings will include book excerpts, environmental writing, and rhetoric, fiction, poetry, visual, and online texts.
Requisites: ENG 2010 or 2020 or 250 or 2 courses above ENG 200 or (Jr or Sr)
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand how to recognize and analyze rhetorical strategies of ecologically focused texts.
- compose a variety of effective writings on course topics.
- gain a complex historical sense of the development of ecological thinking and its influences on the study and practice of English as a discipline.
- read widely in the range of ecological discourses in English Studies.
- understand rhetorical and cultural theories and practice the application of these to a variety of textual genres.
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