Introduction to environmental humanities

lelal1284  2025-2026  Louvain-la-Neuve

Introduction to environmental humanities
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5.00 credits
22.5 h
Q2
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 
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