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Unit 4: Read and Analyze a Short Story part of Cli-Fi: Climate Science in Literary Texts
Jennifer Hanselman, Westfield State University; Rick Oches, Bentley University; Jennifer Sliko, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus; Laura Wright, Western Carolina University
Building on the work they did in Unit 3, students will perform an "ecocritical" rhetorical reading (the theoretical lens for examining the way that literary texts engage with climate and climate issues) ...
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Cli-Fi: Climate Science in Literary Texts part of Cli-Fi: Climate Science in Literary Texts
Jennifer Hanselman, Westfield State University; Rick Oches, Bentley University; Jennifer Sliko, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus; Laura Wright, Western Carolina University; Anne Egger, Central Washington University
This module addresses both aspects of climate literacy: understanding of climate science through data analysis and interpretation, and understanding of literary tools and techniques through which climate science is ...
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Unit 3: Communicating Climate 2: Literary Representations of Climate Change part of Cli-Fi: Climate Science in Literary Texts
Jennifer Hanselman, Westfield State University; Rick Oches, Bentley University; Jennifer Sliko, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus; Laura Wright, Western Carolina University
After being introduced to scientific communication in Unit 2, students will continue by exploring different literary representations of climate change during this unit. Students will analyze various kinds of ...
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Lisa Phillips: Using Mapping the Environment with Sensory Perception at Illinois State University part of Mapping the Environment with Sensory Perception
Multimodal composition is a 200-level undergraduate course taught in a Mac computer lab setting. The course fulfills elective general education requirements within the humanities division and is an elective course in the professional writing and publication track within the English department in sequence with Visual Rhetoric and Technical Writing, both 300-level courses.
Laura Wright: Using Cli-Fi at Western Carolina University part of Cli-Fi: Climate Science in Literary Texts
Understanding what is meant by "African literature" is no simple task. There is really no such thing as a monolithic African literature—or a monolithic Africa; Africa, as a geographical locale and ideological construct, is not a uniform location, even though it is often presented to Western audiences as a singular entity. The continent of Africa is made up of (at last count) 58 distinct countries—and the category of "country" is dependent upon a colonial legacy that divided the continent in accordance with imperial mandates. Therefore, "Africa" as we understand it is an entity at once constituted by colonization and at odds and acting in response to the European colonial project.
Using Poetry to Explore the Rhetoric of Environmental Justice part of Workshops and Webinars:Teaching Environmental Justice: Interdisciplinary Approaches:Activities
Amanda Hagood, Hendrix College
How can literary work give us deeper insight into the concept of environmental justice? This activity explores the crossroads of political writing and poetry, and challenges students to put environmental justice principles into their own words.
Michael Phillips: Using Mapping the Environment with Sensory Perception in Environmental Geology at Illinois Valley Community College part of Mapping the Environment with Sensory Perception
This is an introductory course in the study of the interactions between human activities and the Earth and geologic processes. An overview of modern geologic concepts is followed by an in-depth examination of natural hazards, natural resources, waste management, environmental restoration and land-use planning. This course provides instruction in applied geology and scientific reasoning that is useful to all students.