L&E Courses
Required
This required seminar in the L&E program is offered every other year.
- English 745: Ecocriticism and Theory
Electives
L&E electives vary from year to year, depending on student and faculty interest and new developments in the field, creating a curriculum that is dynamic, responsive, and entrepreneurial. The following L&E electives have been offered, and new ones are being planned:
- Abbey and Stegner
- Amazonia in the Arts
- American Literature in the Nuclear Age
- American Nature Writing
- American Science Writing
- Authenticity, Sense of Place, and Identity in Native American Literature
- Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: Bioregionalism and Western American Literature of Place
- Bioregional Literature and Theory
- Bioregionalism and Western American Literature
- Caribbean Literature and the Environment
- Currents Trends in North American Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
- Ecocriticism and Theory
- Ecofeminism
- Environmental Rhetoric
- Environmental Justice
- Environmental Values
- Exploration and Environment
- Globalization and the Environment
- Herman Melville: Writing Natural History and Unnatural History
- Knowledge and Belief in Contemporary American Nonfiction
- Latin American Nature Writing
- Literature of the American West
- Literature of Population
- Literature of Energy
- Literature of Sustainability
- Literature of the Wild
- Major Nature Writers
- Major Texts of the Environment Movement
- Minding the Gap: Interdisciplinary Science Writing
- Modernist Ecologies: Ecocritical Perspectives on Modern American Literature
- Native American Literature
- Nineteenth-Century American Literature
- Postcolonial Ecocritical Dialogues
- Postwar American Nature Poetry
- Problems in the Victorian Age: The Country and the City
- Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
- Reading Early Novels Ecocritically: Dickens, Hardy, Norris, Cather, and others
- Reading the Roots: American Nature Writing before Walden
- Regional Approach to American Literature
- Regionalism and Bioregionalism
- Representing the Other: Animals in Literature
- Rhetorical Theories of Interpretation: Cases in Environmental Discourse
- Scale and Environment
- Seminar in Creative Writing: Nature Writing
- Sense of Place in Pacific Rim Literature
- Studies in American Literary Realism: 1861-present
- Transcendentalism
- Transcendentalism and its Tradition: American Literary Environmentalism, 1826-Present
- Tropes in Postcolonial Ecologies
- Women in Place
- Women's Literature and the Land: North American Writers
- You Are What You Eat: Food, Sustainability, and American Culture