Climate Literature Eng7

Prerequisites

• - RISING SENIORS

Course Description

• Climate LiteratureLike science, stories help us understand the world as it is. We tell stories to understand how people relate to each other and to our world. Stories let us imagine the future. We tell stories to scare ourselves and to give ourselves hope. In Climate Lit., we’ll look at how literature - and culture more generally - is addressing climate change. We’ll read nonfiction and fiction (and art and film) that explains the science of climate change, and that imagines responses and effects of climate change, both apocalyptic and hopeful.Writing assignments will include both fiction and nonfiction.We’ll engage with all or parts of works like these: Wilderness Essays, John MuirSilent Spring, Rachel CarsonNorth Woods, Daniel MasonThe Overstory, Richard Powers New York: 2140 (and The Ministry for the Future), Kim Stanley Robinson Noor, Nnedi OkoraforThe Parable of the Sower, Octavia ButlerPrincess Mononoke (film), Hayao MiyazakiBurning (film), Eva Orner I’m With the Bears (short stories), ed. Bill McKibben Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert