Brownfield Herbarium: Documenting Anthropogenic Environments
CHUM 324
Spring 2027
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Brownfield Herbarium: Documenting Anthropogenic Nature, asks students to devise multi-disciplinary approaches to capturing the history, ecology, and geography of toxic environments. The herbarium is prized as a collection of type specimens and native species. Extending this technology of European natural history of weedy and invasive species exposes the natures we treasure and deride. Narrowly, the herbarium project builds on the initial buds and bark collections of "Botanizing Worlds" in Spring 2026 at Manresa Island. Broadly, this class invites students to consider other technologies, forms, and genres to document feral landscapes. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA CHUM |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (Environmental Studies Minor)(Environmental Studies)(History Minor)(History)(Science and Technology Studies) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
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Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Barbara Thiers, Herbarium: The Quest to Preserve and Classify the World's Plants; Anaïas Tondeur and Michael Marder, The Chernobyl Herbarium: Fragments of an Exploded Consciousness; Ernesto Schick, Railway Flora
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Examinations and Assignments:
herbarium collection and preparation; written reflections; historical research in digitized herbaria |
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| Instructor(s): Fullilove,Courtney Times: .M..... 01:20PM-04:10PM; Location: TBA |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 12 | | SR major: 0 | JR major: 0 | | |
| Seats Available: 12 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 2 | JR non-major: 5 | SO: 5 | FR: X |
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