ECOCRITICAL READINGS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
| Title | ΟΙΚΟΚΡΙΤΙΚΕΣ ΑΝΑΓΝΩΣΕΙΣ ΑΜΕΡΙΚΑΝΙΚΗΣ ΛΟΓΟΤΕΧΝΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ / ECOCRITICAL READINGS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE |
| Code | Λογ7-487 |
| Faculty | Philosophy |
| School | English Language and Literature |
| Cycle / Level | 1st / Undergraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter/Spring |
| Common | No |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 600020321 |
Programme of Study: 2024-2025
Registered students: 0
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KORMOS | Elective Courses | Winter/Spring | - | 6 |
| Academic Year | 2022 – 2023 |
| Class Period | Winter |
| Instructors from Other Categories | |
| Weekly Hours | 3 |
| Total Hours | 39 |
| Class ID | 600222720
|
Course Type 2011-2015
Specific Foundation / Core
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600222720
- At the Website of the School: https://www.enl.auth.gr/course.asp?Id=474
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
- English (Instruction, Examination)
Prerequisites
General Prerequisites
No course prerequisites.
Learning Outcomes
This course is organized in an interdisciplinary way. By the end of the course, students will have gained knowledge about:
• basic ecological principles
• the use of ecological tropes in literature
• varied perceptions/definitions of nature
• literary representations of the environment
• connections between cultural identity and environmental consciousness
• minority environmental traditions in American literature and culture
General Competences
- Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
- Adapt to new situations
- Make decisions
- Work autonomously
- Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
- Respect natural environment
- Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
From deep ecology, ecocide, eco-collapse, ethno-ecology, environmental racism, eco-literacy to ecofeminism, American thinkers have put forward ‘environmental praxis’ that discloses the multifaceted forms of exploitation practiced in the international arena of development and progress. This course asks the following questions: What are the effects of the recent human epoch (the Anthropocene)? What is ecocriticism? What are the inflections of race, class and gender in environmental literature? Students are asked to identify the ecological crisis the world is currently faced with, approach literature in an interdisciplinary mode and think in ‘glocal’ terms.
Keywords
Ecocriticism, environmental literature, ecological tropes, environmental racism
Educational Material Types
- Notes
- Slide presentations
- Audio
- Multimedia
- Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
- Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Description
Students can use IT in a variety of ways: access to digital resources (ebooks and eJournals), in-class screenings, real-time feedback on student performance and communication with instructor via BigBlueButton/ΖΟΟΜ.
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 50 | ✓ | |||
| Reading Assigment | 90 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Exams | 10 | ✓ | |||
| Total | 150 |
Student Assessment
Description
Final written exam (100%) or reflection (20%) and final written exam (80%).
Student Assessment methods
- Written Exam with Short Answer Questions (Formative, Summative)
- Written Exam with Extended Answer Questions (Formative, Summative)
- Written Assignment (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Additional bibliography for study
Adamson, Joni. American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism : The Middle Place. U of Arizona P, 2001.
Buell, Lawrence. The Future of Environmental Criticism : Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination. Blackwell Pub., 2005.
Garrard, Greg. Ecocriticism. Routledge, 2012.
Heise, Ursula K. “Ecocriticism and the Transnational Turn in American Studies.” American Literary History, vol. 20, no.1, 2008, pp. 381-404.
Peña, G. Devon, editor. Chicano Culture, Ecology, Politics: Subversive Kin. U of Arizona P, c1998.
---. “Structural Violence, Historical Trauma, and Public Health: The Environmental Justice Critique of Contemporary Risk Science and Practice.” Communities, Neighborhoods, and Health: Expanding the Boundaries of Place, edited by Linda M. Burton et al., Springer Science & Business Media, LLC, c2011, pp. 203-18.
Phillips, Dana. “Ecocriticism, Literary Theory, and the Truth of Ecology.” New Literary History, vol. 30, no.3, 1999, pp. 577-602.
Plumwood, Val. “Decolonizing Relationships with Nature.” Decolonizing Nature Strategies for Conservation in a Post-Colonial Era, edited by William M. Adams and Martin Mulligan, Earthscan Publications, 2003, pp. 51-78.
Slovic, Scott, and Swarnalatha Rangarajan. Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication. Routledge, 2019.
Last Update
02-10-2022
