Iyengar, Sujata
TR 9:35 AM
Park Hall 0259
Immerse yourself in the natural world through walks around campus; readings about the natural world from pre-industrial times to the present; reflective journaling about your experiences with natural or wild spaces; and a celebration in the Founders' Garden.
Reading from Camille Dungy’s poetry anthology Black Nature, Robin Kimmerer’s nonfiction text Braiding Sweetgrass and other twenty-first-century texts as well as from early modern poems and essays about nature, we will journal about our readings and experiences; observe and cherish our green spaces on campus; and discuss how and whether present-day humans can learn from pre-industrial societies’ very different relationship with the natural world.
This course can be used to fulfil either the English major's requirement in literature before pre-1800 (Group 1) or the requirement in language, criticism, and culture (Group 4). We would be willing to accommodate interested students who might not have the prerequisites.
