ENG 200 - Nature Writing: Art & the Environment (SYS) (1)

This class will examine contemporary environmental issues and explore the role that the arts can have in response to these issues. How can an artist spark passion, curiosity, and engagement in their audience? We explore issues of land conservation, biodiversity, and-since we will be here in midwestern farmland at harvest time-land management and industrial agriculture. We will visit with local farmers, parks, and managed lands. We will use these experiences as the material for lyric essays, studying the ways that we can effectively respond to the complexity of these issues. We will develop our own sense of what it means to be an environmentally conscious citizen in the 21st century. Only open to sophomores.
(Sophomore Year Seminar (SYS)) (Fine Arts)