Introduction to Environmental Humanities
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course introduces students to key concepts and texts in environmental humanities, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary studies of race, gender, sexuality, capital, nation, and globalization. The course examines the conceptual foundations that support humanistic analyses of environmental issues, climate crisis, and the ethics of justice and care. In turn, this critical analysis can serve as the basis for responding to the urgency of calls for environmental action.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Students will learn what difference humanistic studies make to understanding environmental issues and climate crisis. The course will prepare students to:
Identify humanistic methods and how they contribute to understanding the world;
Demonstrate critical approaches to reading and representing environments;
Engage ethical questions related to the environment; and
Apply concepts from the course to synthesize the student’s use of humanistic approaches to address urgent environmental questions.
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- 3 points
Intro to Environmental Humanities Discus
Discussion Section
Discussion Section
- W 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- 0-2 points
Critical Approaches in Social and Cultur
This course examines the conceptual foundations that support feminist and queer analyses of racial capitalism, security and incarceration, the politics of life and health, and colonial and postcolonial studies, among others. Open to all students; required for the major in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) and the Interdisciplinary Concentration or Minor in Race and Ethnicity (ICORE/MORE).
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexander Pittman
CULPA: 10
Info
- 3 points
INTERSECTIONAL FEMINISMS
PRACTICING INTERSECTIONALITY
Enrollment for this class is by instructor approval and an application is required. Please fill out the form here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7cC2KI_K83siu2DxEx784GLaFDyxv9T_e7XPTvAN0fpITSQ/viewform?pli=1
This introductory course for the Interdisciplinary Concentration or Minor in Race and Ethnicity (ICORE/MORE) is open to all students. We focus on the critical study of social difference as an interdisciplinary practice, using texts with diverse modes of argumentation and evidence to analyze social differences as fundamentally entangled and co-produced. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of this course, the professor will frequently be joined by other faculty from the Consortium for Critical Interdisciplinary Studies (CCIS), who bring distinct disciplinary and subject matter expertise. Some keywords for this course include hybridity, diaspora, borderlands, migration, and intersectionality.
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Manijeh Moradian
Info - 3 points
FEMINIST THEORY
Prerequisites: LIMITED TO 20 BY INSTRUC PERM; ATTEND FIRST CLASS
This course provides a theoretical itinerary to the emergence of contemporary queer theory and engagement with some contemporary legacies of the movement. The goal is not to be exhaustive nor to establish a correct history of queer theory but to engage students in the task of understanding and creating intellectual genealogies.
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rebecca Jordan-Young
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
Senior Seminar I (Barnard)
SENIOR SEMINAR I
Student-designed capstone research projects offer practical lessons about how knowledge is produced, the relationship between knowledge and power, and the application of interdisciplinary feminist methodologies.
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Manijeh Moradian
Info - 4 points
SEXUALITY AND SCIENCE
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Rebecca Jordan-Young
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN YIDDISH LITERATU
GENDER/SEXUALITY YIDDIS L
Early publications in Yiddish, a.k.a. the mame loshn, ‘mother tongue,’ were addressed to “women and men who are like women,” while famous Yiddish writer, Sholem Aleichem, created a myth of “three founding fathers” of modern Yiddish literature, which eliminated the existence of Yiddish women writers. As these examples indicate, gender has played a significant role in Yiddish literary power dynamics. This course will explore representation of gender and sexuality in modern Yiddish literature and film in works created by Sholem Aleichem, Sholem Asch, Fradl Shtok, Sh. An-sky, Malka Lee, Anna Margolin, Celia Dropkin, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Kadya Molodowsky, Troim Katz Handler, and Irena Klepfisz. You will also acquire skills in academic research and digital presentation of the findings as part of the Mapping Yiddish New York project that is being created at Columbia. No knowledge of Yiddish required.
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Agnieszka Legutko
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points