COMM-4600

Rhetoric of Nature and the Environment

A seminar course focusing on how attitudes are formed and people mobilized to action on environmental issues. Topics will include traditions of nature writing and art, the symbolic/conceptual formation of “nature” and “the environment,” and methods for analysis and development of discursive formations and persuasive strategies. Prerequisites: junior or senior status, two environmentally focused H&SS courses, and two courses in biology and/or geology, or permission of the instructor. Spring term annually.

4 credit hours