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Land, Nature and Environmental Values Minor

Writing Studies

College of Liberal Arts

Students will no longer be accepted into this program after Spring 2011. Program requirements below are for current students only.

Program Type: Undergraduate minor related to major
Requirements for this program are current for Fall 2015
Required credits in this minor: 18

This multidisciplinary minor serves students in CLA and other colleges who have an interest in cultural issues relating to the environment. Students are introduced to the historical development, philosophical assumptions, and imaginative expression of the human relationship to nature and are asked to consider implications of issues involving the use of nature. Students choose from a variety of courses relating some aspect of their major field to social, cultural, or historical trends in the larger society, and can include as many as 6 credits of outside electives. For assistance in planning a minor in land, nature, and environmental values, see the minor adviser in the Department of Writing. Students must complete at least 15 credits in approved courses.

Program Delivery

This program is available:

via classroom (the majority of instruction is face-to-face)

Minor Requirements

Minor Courses

Take 3 or more course(s) from the following:

· WRIT 3152W - Writing on Issues of Science and Technology [WI] (3.0 cr)

· WRIT 3315 - Writing on Issues of Land and the Environment [AH, DSJ] (3.0 cr)

· WRIT 3302 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)

· WRIT 3371W - Technology, Self, and Society [TS, WI] (3.0 cr)

· WRIT 3383 {Inactive} [ENVT, OH] (3.0 cr)

· WRIT 3404 {Inactive} [ENV] (3.0 cr)

Students must write an integrative paper.

Take 3 or more credit(s) from the following:

· WRIT 3291 {Inactive} (1.0 cr)

Electives

Take 5-6 credits of related coursework chosen with an adviser in the Department of Writing Studies.

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WRIT 3152W - Writing on Issues of Science and Technology (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Science and technology are key parts of nearly every aspect of our lives, and, just as important, science and technology are highly debated topics in political, economic, social, public, and personal spheres. For example, consider debates regarding genetically modified foods, space exploration, vaccines, oil pipelines, or clean drinking water. This course will push you to consider the ways you think, feel, and write about science and technology. This course will ask you to examine the relationship between language and science and technology. We will spend the semester reading about science and technology, in addition to studying and practicing different strategies, techniques, and approaches for communicating about science and technology. Using rhetorical studies as a foundation, this course will give you the tools to more effectively engage with scientific and technological topics and debates. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, this course aims to foster engagement with scientific and technological conversations. Put simply, students should leave this course caring about scientific and technological issues and wanting to participate in the conversations that surround such issues.

WRIT 3315 - Writing on Issues of Land and the Environment (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course explores how written texts help shape understandings of the land in the U.S. Students read and analyze historical texts that have contributed to colonialist understandings of nature and the land. Students will study how the rhetorical strategies of such texts helped to form exploitive relations with the land and enact violence against indigenous peoples. Historical and current texts written by native peoples provide a counter-narrative to the myth of progress. Emphasis in the course is placed on analyzing texts with an eye toward setting the ground for conversations aimed at achieving sustainability and justice. Students will also study how written texts are composed within material contexts that contribute to their understanding.