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Apr 24, 2024
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LAS 207 - The Ladder and the Web 3 Credit Hours
In this seminar, we will study selected classic and contemporary texts that explore connections-physical, ethical, and spiritual-between human beings and the natural world, and we will apply what we learn from studying those texts to current environmental issues. The question that governs the course can be expressed [deceptively] simply: What is the proper relationship between humankind and nature? The simplicity of the question is deceptive because within it reside a number of other questions, the most urgent of which is whether, given the consequences of humankind’s activities over the past few hundred years, it’s simply too late to ponder such questions. What have we done to the earth? What can we do now? In confronting such questions, we will draw both comfort and guidance from such great American nature writers as Thoreau, Muir, and Carson and from a great modern treatise, Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of a first-year seminar.
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