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2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ENVSTY 270GL - Writing and the Environment


3 Credit(s) | Seminar | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit

Description:
This interdisciplinary course will connect humanistic and scientific approaches to examining the way we live with the natural world. It investigates ecological perspectives on the relationship between human beings and nature that reflect both traditional cultures and Western industrial modernity. Students will be invited to understand the value of site-based work, to consider the campus’s connections to its surroundings, and to grasp the patterns of culture characteristic of coastal zones and port cities. The course will demonstrate that both humanistic and scientific approaches are necessary to solve real-world problems.

Course Note
ENGL 270GL and ENVSTY 270GL are the same course

This course is cross-listed as ENGL 270GL

Intermediate Seminar

Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: ENGL 102  and a minimum of 30 credits

Degree students only

Students may not take more than one 200G (Intermediate Seminar) course

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