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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Fall 2023 |
Registration ID | RUSSB232001 |
Course Title | Coal, Oil, Nuclear |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Comparative Literature |
Instructor | Vergara,Jose |
Times and Days | MW 01:10pm-02:30pm
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Room Location | RCCON |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1896 Coal. Oil. Nuclear energy. These items give shape to our everyday lives in countless ways. They impact our health, our politics, and our very survival on earth.. Nevertheless, because these resources permeate nearly every aspect of our existence, the human mind can struggle to comprehend them in their totality. In this course, well explore texts that engage with our environment to help us bring humans relationship to these materials into focus. Scientific, historical, and economic studies tend to focus on their scale and widespread impact. Reading stories, watching Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC), Critical Interpretation (CI), Power, Inequity, and Justice (PIJ); Enrollment Cap: 15; This course is for 360 students only. This course is part of 360 Energy Afterlives: What comes in the wake of energy extraction? This cluster will examine the afterlives of coal, oil, and nuclear energy through the lenses of the arts, political science, and earth science. In the arts course, students will consider how these three energy sources give shape to our lives in countless ways by exploring their place in literature, music, photography, creative nonfiction, and art. This approach will allow students to examine the personal, human elements of energy and extraction and their aftereffects. In the science course, through readings, specimen analyses, field sampling, and lab work, students will assess the geologic conditions under which these three energy sources form - and the long-term environmental consequences of their extraction. In the political science course, students will examine how communities have organized around places and responded to the afterlives of energy extraction. If you are interested in the 360 program, you must fill out the application which is due on April 5, 2023 at NOON by clicking on link https://www.brynmawr.edu/inside-22. This 360 cluster includes enrolling in GEOL B107 and POLS B304. |
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