HON 368 American Landscapes: Environmental Literature in the United States

Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. How does the American landscape function in our imagination, our policies, our lives? This reading-intensive course covers a wide range of environmental works: political, scientific, philosophical, autobiographical. Authors include Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Leslie Marmon Silko, Annie Dillard, Gary Snyder, Jack London, and Eddy Harris. (H2, CT)