UNV 101: Section 17

Course Description:

How can the study of art, history, literature, philosophy and film make us more attuned to our surrounding world? This course will tackle environmental issues such as drought, melting glaciers, rising oceans, pollution and global resource exploitation through a discussion of how ideas of the “human” have always been defined in relation to nature, animals and environment. We will look at an eclectic set of “texts” including nature poetry, the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, Hollywood disaster movies, digital projects such as 100 Views of Climate Change, and even the popular mobile game Pokémon Go.

Course by Major:

This course may be particularly interesting to you if you are interested in one of the following majors.

• Anthropology
• Art and Design
• Arts and Humanities
• Communications
• Digital Media Arts
• Earth Science
• English
• Environmental Science
• Film, Television, and Media
• History
• Humanities
• Interdisciplinary Studies
• Liberal Studies
• Modern Languages
• Philosophy
• Theater Arts

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