PMA 1181

FWS: Love and the Environment

Course Description

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How does love shape an environment? How do we perceive the space where love ends and the environment begins, or can we? How are relationships co-creating space? With what can we cultivate a greater intimacy?  These are some of the questions we will explore creatively and rhetorically this semester. We will consider "love" from the theoretical framework of black feminist, queer, and indigenous thought to expand the concept from western romantic notions to explore intimacies of various formations—platonic, communal, familial, spiritual, natural--through the lens of ecopoetics. I use the term 'environment' to invoke scene/setting, natural/ecological perspectives, and interpersonal space. We will engage with varieties of text--poetry to performance art to film--and have 6 writing assignments, 5 essays and 1 experimental work, with opportunities for revision.

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When Offered Fall.

Satisfies Requirement First-Year Writing Seminar.

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