Description
[Social Practice minor] This course will guide students to evaluate their role as citizens of the world through an ecocentric lens in an era where species across the world struggle with climate change and the Sixth Mass Extinction. After laying a foundation of ecology and species concepts, the course will build through exploring the human-caused ecological crises, both ancient and modern, the environmental movement of the 1960s, where we are heading with the modern sustainability and Rights of Nature movements, and exciting recent discoveries that make us question what we thought we knew about our fellow species and our own. Along the way, we will be introduced to naturalist writers and environmental philosophers, old and new, and examine artistic portrayals of the human-nature dynamic.