ENGL 368 American Landscapes: Environmental Literature in the United States

Prerequisite: Junior standing and completion of the Literary Analysis requirement or ENGL 210, ENGL 222, or ENGL 223 or 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, Emerson, Aldo Leopold, Leslie Marmon Silko, Annie Dillard, Gary Snyder, Jack London, and William Faulkner. (H2, CT)