ENGL 475

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Literature and Other Disciplines

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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Advanced topics seminar exploring the intersection of literary study and other scholarly disciplines. The disciplines students study vary each term, but past courses have examined connections between literature and psychology, forensic science, environmental studies, and the law.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated with permission of English advising office to a maximum of 6 undergraduate hours if topics vary; Graduate students may repeat if topics vary. Prerequisite: One year of college literature or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 475 class schedule data for spring 2020
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	43335	Lecture-Discussion	1G	9:30AM -10:45AM	TR	127 English Building	Oh, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Imagining the End Times Section Info: ENGL 475: Imagining the End Times: Science, Fiction, and Climate Change How do scientists, artists, and writers approach the challenge of representing and imagining climate change? This course will introduce students to scientific discourses on climate change and its attendant term, the Anthropocene, which names a new geological epoch in which humans act as geological forces. Students will consider academic debates in the sciences, humanities and social sciences about climate change’s many effects on humans and the nonhuman world and the challenges of representing simultaneously local and planetary change. In doing this we will consider what humanist methods can contribute to science, and consider how literature illustrates the material reality of climate change while also raising questions of social and political significance that science is not prepared to answer. This class will allow students to think about literature in conjunction with science while cultivating an appreciation for the specific representational capacities and questions that literary and aesthetic texts raise about climate change. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	43334	Lecture-Discussion	1U	9:30AM -10:45AM	TR	127 English Building	Oh, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Imagining the End Times Section Info: ENGL 475: Imagining the End Times: Science, Fiction, and Climate Change How do scientists, artists, and writers approach the challenge of representing and imagining climate change? This course will introduce students to scientific discourses on climate change and its attendant term, the Anthropocene, which names a new geological epoch in which humans act as geological forces. Students will consider academic debates in the sciences, humanities and social sciences about climate change’s many effects on humans and the nonhuman world and the challenges of representing simultaneously local and planetary change. In doing this we will consider what humanist methods can contribute to science, and consider how literature illustrates the material reality of climate change while also raising questions of social and political significance that science is not prepared to answer. This class will allow students to think about literature in conjunction with science while cultivating an appreciation for the specific representational capacities and questions that literary and aesthetic texts raise about climate change. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.