Approaches To The Environmental Humanities

AY2018/2019 Semester 1

This course exposes you to current global environmental concerns through literary and nonfiction texts, art, and media; teaches you to place primary and critical sources across disciplines into conversation; and gets you to inspect your roles as readers, critics, and actors contributing to sustainable decisions. You will learn how to draw on perspectives across fields of study to talk to colleagues, friends, and family members about the environment. You will gain the skills to critically engage interdisciplinary sources in assignments that integrate written and practical components. Assessments and a field trip incorporating practical and public engagement will let you contribute to current debates and understand how you can influence sustainable outcomes in Singapore and beyond. In this class, we look closely at the role of the humanities in current environmental debates. We approach climate change holistically by analysing contemporary creative sources ? including literature, films and documentaries, visual art, and sculpture ? alongside environmental history, public science writing, and climate communications research. Visiting scholars and practitioners working on sustainability, as well as a field trip to Marina Barrage, will enrich our discussion.