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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Spring 2021 |
Registration ID | EALCB355001 |
Course Title | Animals Vegetables Minerals |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Environmental Studies |
Instructor | Kwa,Shiamin |
Times and Days | T 09:40am-12:30pm
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Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2481 This semester, we will explore how artists question, explore, celebrate, and critique the relationships between humans and the environment. Through a topics-focused course, students will examine the ways that narratives about environment have shaped the way that humans have defined themselves. We will be reading novels and short stories and viewing films that contest conventional binaries of man and animal, civilization and nature, tradition and technology, and even truth and fiction. “Animals, Vegetables, Minerals” does not follow chronological or geographical frameworks, but chooses texts that engage the three categories enumerated as the major themes of our course. We will read and discuss animal theory, theories of place and landscape, and theories of modernization or mechanization; and there will be frequent (and intentional) overlap between these categories. We will also be watching films that extend our theoretical questions of thes e themes beyond national, linguistic, and generic borders. You are expected to view this course as a collaborative process in which you share responsibility for leading discussion. There are no prerequisites or language expectations, but students should have some basic knowledge of East Asian, especially Sinophone, history and culture, or be willing to do some additional reading (suggested by the instructor) to achieve an adequate contextual background for exploring these texts. Approach: Writing Attentive; Haverford: Humanities (HU) ( ) Enrollment Cap: 12: IIf the course exceeds the enrollment cap the following criteria will be used for the lottery: Majors, Seniors, Juniors. |
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