ENGL M30
Introduction to Environmental Humanities
Description: (Same as Environment M30.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Introduction to core themes, questions, and methods within interdisciplinary field of environmental humanities. Examination of how different culture forms (e.g., fiction, journalism, poetry, visual art) represent environmental issues. Topics may include biodiversity, wilderness, food, urban ecologies, postcolonial ecologies, environmental justice, and climate change. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 5.0
Units: 5.0
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Fall 2023 - This class is a lot of work. There are 20-40 pages of weekly readings every week, two discussion posts, 3 short papers, a midterm, and a final. I think the midterm and final were fairly easy as long as you do the readings, pay attention in class, and farm your TA for info but the short papers could have done with a bit more clarity on grading. On the papers, I would recommend going overboard and putting out extremely high quality, well formatted, and well cited work to ensure you get an A. My TA was super helpful with clarifying the short paper expectations after I bombed paper 2, so make sure to utilize your TA as much as possible. The lecture slides were not useful at all and the lectures are not posted online so you kinda have to go to class and pay attention, but Prof Heise is extremely passionate about the topic has so much knowledge about the field of environment literature and sci-fi which can make lectures fun to listen to. She is an extremely knowledgeable, caring prof and I really couldn't have asked for a better prof for my first quarter, I'll definitely try to take other classes with her in the future. My only issue with the lectures other than them not being uploaded online is that the slides are not easy to take notes on (dense quotes, pictures, etc.) which makes studying for tests kinda annoying. Other than that though, this class was pretty fun and I would take it again, maybe just with a bit more mental prep to try hard and put my all into the readings and essays.
Fall 2023 - This class is a lot of work. There are 20-40 pages of weekly readings every week, two discussion posts, 3 short papers, a midterm, and a final. I think the midterm and final were fairly easy as long as you do the readings, pay attention in class, and farm your TA for info but the short papers could have done with a bit more clarity on grading. On the papers, I would recommend going overboard and putting out extremely high quality, well formatted, and well cited work to ensure you get an A. My TA was super helpful with clarifying the short paper expectations after I bombed paper 2, so make sure to utilize your TA as much as possible. The lecture slides were not useful at all and the lectures are not posted online so you kinda have to go to class and pay attention, but Prof Heise is extremely passionate about the topic has so much knowledge about the field of environment literature and sci-fi which can make lectures fun to listen to. She is an extremely knowledgeable, caring prof and I really couldn't have asked for a better prof for my first quarter, I'll definitely try to take other classes with her in the future. My only issue with the lectures other than them not being uploaded online is that the slides are not easy to take notes on (dense quotes, pictures, etc.) which makes studying for tests kinda annoying. Other than that though, this class was pretty fun and I would take it again, maybe just with a bit more mental prep to try hard and put my all into the readings and essays.
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