CAP - Civil and Sustainable Societies
Here's a recent photo of the Civil and Sustainable Societies team
[front row, l-r: Dawn, Larissa, Janice, Carla; back row: Graeme].
We're excited about the ways the three courses are coming together.
Contact us with any questions you have!
Theme | Courses | Instructor |
Civil and Sustainable | ||
This theme explores issues of globalization and sustainability in both comparative and historical perspectives. Together the courses in this theme consider a wide variety of texts from landscapes to literature (fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry) while examining the complex and ever-changing relations between people, places, and the planet.
By emphasizing global encounters and conflicts, urbanization and regional growth, different patterns of globalization, modernization and its contestation, the theme offers an exciting and coherent approach to understanding the challenges and prospects of creating more civil and sustainable societies. The ASTU seminar stresses both composition and rhetoric and provides a discussion forum for issues related to both the foregoing and academic scholarship in the Arts Faculty.
By studying geography and literature together, students will be uniquely prepared to address social and environmental problems. Literary works offer a key in unlocking difficult controversies. Geography can provide new perspectives on sustainability with a concern for the interrelationships between nature, people, and place.
Students interested in fields ranging from nature writing to environmental policy, from global ecology to community organizing, will benefit from exploring these fields. As the literary scholar Lawrence Buell has observed, "The success of all environmentalist efforts finally hinges not on some highly developed technology, or some arcane new science but on a state of mind: on attitudes, feelings, images, narratives."
18 credits: 6 credits for ENGL 110/111, 6 credits for GEOG 121/122, and 6 credits for ASTU 100 (satisfying the Faculty of Arts First-Year English Requirement).
Click here for ENGL course outline, reading list, and team bio.
Click here for GEOG course outline, reading list, and team bio.
Click here for ASTU course outline and instructors' bio.