Getting a Bigger Picture: Integrating Environmental History and Visual Studies
ENVS 255
Spring 2015
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01
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| Crosslisting:
SISP 255, HIST 262, ARHA 273 |
| Certificates: Environmental Studies |
This interdisciplinary course approaches the history of environmental policy and opinion-making through a frame that takes seriously the rise in power accorded to visual imagery and visual practices (including photography, digital image production, film and new media) in modern society. The course introduces students to key landmarks in the visual history of environmentalism spanning a time period from colonial America to the recent past, focusing both on images of nature and on the nature of images. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS ENVS |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (ARHA)(ENVS-MN)(HIST-MN) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 50% - 74% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Mcneill and Mcneill, THE HUMAN WEB: A BIRD'S- EYE VIEW OF WORLD HISTORY
ABUNDANT BEAUTY: THE ADVENTUROUS TRAVELS OF MARIANNE NORTH, BOTANICAL ARTIST (2010)
Rachel Carson, SILENT SPRING
Bill McKibben, ed. AMERICAN EARTH: ENVIRONMENTAL WRITING SINCE THOREAU (2008)
Daniel Defoe, JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR
Gillian Rose, VISUAL METHODOLOGIES
James Cook, JOURNALS OF CAPTAIN COOK (Penguin edition)
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Examinations and Assignments:
Two short (4-5 pp.) papers, final research project, final presentation, in-class participation and attendance. |
| Instructor(s): Tucker,Jennifer Times: .M.W... 01:10PM-02:30PM; Location: WYL112; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 30 | | SR major: 4 | JR major: 8 | | |
| Seats Available: 6 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 0 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: 8 | FR: 8 |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 9 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 2 | 3rd Ranked: 1 | 4th Ranked: 1 | Unranked: 5 |
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