English 63
Literature and the Environment
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English 63
Literature and the Environment
Fall 2025
16-week session from 9/2/25-12/19/25
*This is an online class taught asynchronously.
Section 931, CRN: 73760
Course Information
Course Information
This special topic literature course will focus literature that engages our relationship with our environment and with nature. After reflecting on our early experiences in nature, we’ll begin our analysis by reading pieces that illustrate cultural conceptions of nature and perceptions of humans’ relationship with and role in nature. We’ll read a diverse range of texts, from religious text to Indigenous poetry and fiction, and trace Western conceptions of nature from the Enlightenment era, Romanticism, American Transcendentalism, Conservationism, Environmentalism, and Ecofeminism. We’ll discuss environmental racism and justice and the writings of early the 21st-century youth-led climate justice movements. We’ll read oral histories of people impacted by climate change and works of climate fiction that imagine various possible futures. In doing so, we’ll engage in the most pressing question of our time:
How can we as humans re-imagine our relationship with nature and the environment
in order to mitigate climate change and survive as a species?
Important Dates
Important Dates
Start and End Dates
Start and End Dates
September 2, 2025 - December 19, 2025
Important Dates:
Important Dates:
Last day to add: September 19, 2025
Last day for refund: September 11, 2025
Last day to drop without W: September 19, 2025
Last day to drop with W: November 20, 2025
Last day to elect pass/no pass: NA
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