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 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Ashley Dawson
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• 3 points

Intro to Environmental Humanities Discus

Discussion Section

Discussion Section

• W 9:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• 0 points

Intro to Environmental Humanities Discus

Discussion Section

Discussion Section

• W 9:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• 0 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).

• TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Marisa Solomon
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• 3 points

CRITICAL APPROACHES-DISC

CRITICAL APPROACHES-DISCUSSION

• 0 points

CRITICAL APPROACHES-DISC

CRITICAL APPROACHES-DISCUSSION

• 0 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://forms.gle/bPsV7rcf5RWB35PM9

This introductory course for the Interdisciplinary Concentration or Minor in Race and Ethnicity (ICORE/MORE) as well as Majors/Minors in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) 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 and guest speakers 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.-noon
• Instructor: Manijeh Moradian
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• 3 points

INTERSECTIONAL FEMINISMS DISCUSSION SECT

N/A

• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• 0 points

INTERSECTIONAL FEMINISMS DISCUSSION SECT

N/A

• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• 0 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.

• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Marisa Solomon
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• 4 points

HIST APPROACHES FEMINIST QUES

Comparative study of gender, race, and sexuality through specific historical, socio-cultural contexts in which these systems of power have operated. With a focus on social contexts of slavery, colonialism, and modern capitalism for the elaboration of sex-gender categories and systems across historical time.

• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Alexander Pittman
  CULPA: 10 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 10:10 a.m.-noon
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Manijeh Moradian
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• Instructor: Jacqueline Orr
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• 4 points

Independent Study

INDEPENDENT STUDY

• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Rebecca Jordan-Young
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• 1-4 points

Decolonization and Feminist Critique

DECOLONIZATION & FEMINIST

This advanced seminar examines historical, social, cultural, and theoretical propositions for decolonizing praxis and their complex relations to feminist critique. How do we understand Western European colonialism and coloniality as modes, conditions, and institutions of power, dispossession, subjugation, and subjection continuing into the present? What are the methods, practices, and vision enacted and proposed by the colonized for undoing and radically transforming the determinate logics, instruments, and structures of colonialism as these persist in the present moment? We will consider how gender and sexuality as well as race – as technologies of social organization, codes of valuation, and modes of survival – shape colonialism and the struggles against it. We will inquire into their significance to projects of decolonization. How might decolonization envision and make possible other ways of life?

• W 11:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Neferti Tadiar
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points