21W.775 | Fall 2006 | Undergraduate

Writing about Nature and Environmental Issues

Course Description

This course focuses on traditional nature writing and the environmentalist essay. Students will keep a Web log as a journal. Writings are drawn from the tradition of nature writing and from contemporary forms of the environmentalist essay.

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Written Assignments
Close-up of tree bark, with the forest in the background.
The bark of a tree. (Image courtesy of Aayesha Siddiqui.)
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