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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Environmental Humanities: Remaking Nature
UNSW Sydney
This online course served as an introduction to research and scholarship in the Environmental Humanities. The course placed scientific knowledge in dialogue with the key concerns of the humanities and explored creative ways of generating new understandings and approaches to environmental challenges.
5 weeks, 3 hours per week
Prof. Stephen Muecke
Professor of Ethnography, School of Humanities and Languages
UNSW Sydney
Dr. Susanne Pratt
Adjunct Lecturer, Environmental Humanities
UNSW Sydney
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Evaluate the usefulness of Environmental Humanities in contemporary environmental problem-solving
- Explore a range of creative projects currently being deployed by experts within Environmental Humanties
- Explain how nature and culture have historically been divided in the West, and the implications of this
- Experiment with different methods in Environmental Humanities, including storytelling
- Contribute to the development of knowledge in Environmental Humanities through discussion and curation of resources
- Apply Environmental Humanities theory and practice to global and local environmental challenges
- Develop creative responses to current and potential environmental challenges
Syllabus
- The complexity of environmental challenges and the need for interdisciplinary responses
- The conceptual development of the concept of “nature”
- Implications of the invention of “nature”
- Ways of moving beyond anthropocentric (human-centred) perspectives
- Tactics for intervening in environmental concerns using approaches from a range of humanities subdisciplines
- Ways in which communicative modes, such as storytelling, can foster more attentive responses to the environmental challenges of our times
Issued on 14th February 2017
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