Introduction to environmental humanities

Language

French

Prerequisites

This course is built on the online  course LBIR 2050 Challenges of sustainable development and transition (5 cr.), which students are expected to have followed beforehand. 

Main themes

1. Key elements of the contemporary ecological crisis (in dialogue with the MOOC) 
2. Environmental humanities: an interdisciplinary field - concepts and methods 
3. Literature and the Anthropocene: analysis of debates and issues of representation (realism, gender, scale, environmental justice, emotion) 
4. Arts, media and the Anthropocene: imaginaries, possibilities and limits 

Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	Understand the key elements of the contemporary ecological crisis (in dialogue with the MOOC)
2	Situate various disciplines within the broader context of environmental crisis
3	Produce a critical literary/cultural analysis related to the debates explored in the environmental humanities
4	Understand the aesthetic, ethical, social and/or political challenges of artworks covered in class
This learning unit contributes to the development and command of the following skills and learning outcomes of the ELAL programmes (ELAL learning outcomes): 1.4; 4.4; 5.6

Faculty or entity

> ELAL