autumn 2024
ENG-3130 Literature and the Environment - 10 ECTS
Type of course
This course is intended for students in the master's programme in English literature and students in the master's programme in education year 8-13 (lektorutdanninga, studieretning engelsk, jf. progresjonskrav for år 4).
This course may be taken as a single course by students who meet the admission requirements for the master's programme in English Literature. Please see the admission requirements section.
This course fulfils the Literature and Society requirement for the master's programme in English literature.
Admission requirements
Bachelor's degree (180 ECTS), or equivalent qualification, in English literature, or a degree combining English literature and a closely-related discipline (minimum 80 ECTS in English). An average grade equivalent to C or better (in the Norwegian grading system) is required.
Application code: 9371 - Enkeltemner på masternivå (Nordic applicants).
Course content
The course is an in-depth study of environmental writing in English of a particular country or region(s). It focuses on ways in which the relationship between nature and culture is viewed in the chosen texts, and how environmental writers foster a critical understanding about harmful aspects of human activity on the environment. The course focuses on some of the following themes represented in literature: pollution, wilderness, apocalypse, animals, and global warming. The theoretical framework draws from traditional ecocritical readings of literature or discusses the questions of ecological justice and ecofeminism in a greater detail. The syllabus may encompass fiction and poetry in addition to essayistic texts.Objectives of the course
Knowledge
The student has:
- advanced knowledge of course-related concepts, including environmentalism and ecocriticism
- a clear understanding of the social, literary, historical, and cultural contexts in which writing about "nature" has developed
- a strong theoretical understanding of approaches to literature that attend to environmentalism
Skills
The student can:
- consider ways in which reading and writing can deepen our experience of the non-human world
- analyze primary and secondary texts and discern connections among them
- use relevant theoretical approaches to achieve independent insights about individual texts
- explain their ideas in a succinct, coherent manner and support them with close readings of the texts
Information to incoming exchange students
This course is available for inbound exchange students.
This course is open for inbound exchange student who meets the admission requirements. Please see the Admission requirements.
Do you have questions about this module? Please check the following website to contact the course coordinator for exchange students at the faculty:
- About the course
- Campus: Tromsø |
- ECTS: 10
- Course code: ENG-3130
- Responsible unit
- Institutt for språk og kultur
- Spørsmål om emnet
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E-post: aisi@hjelp.uit.no
Telefon: 77660793
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