First-Year Writing Seminar (101-8-1)

Topic

Environmental Writing: Regulation and Imagination

Instructors

Nicolette Isabel Bruner

Meeting Info

Annenberg Hall G28: Tues, Thurs 9:30AM - 10:50AM

Overview of class

Environmental Writing: Regulationa and Imagination - Winter 2024

What is the environment? Is it a collection of resources? An entity in need of protection? An autonomous state of being? In this course, we interrogate the relationship between how we talk about the environment and what we do to - and with - the natural world. Readings will engage with contemporary U.S. problems in environmental law and the environmental humanities, including climate change, riparian rights, environmental impact assessment, and the rights of nature movement. Along the way, we will interrogate how legal language imagines, constructs, and limits the objects it regulates, and practice making productive, evidence-centered interpretative arguments.

Class Attributes

WCAS Writing Seminar