ENGL 370P: Pre-Modern Ecologies

1 unit
Prerequisites: Completion with a 2.0 or better of at least three units in English, including one unit numbered ENGL 220 to ENGL 289; or permission of instructor.
Examines the role that non-human animals, plants, and the environment play in the poetry and drama of pre-modern writers. Attention is given to the ways in which attitudes toward nature and definitions of humans are implicated in continuing environmental problems such as deforestation, urbanization, precarity, climate change, and extinction. MacInnes