ENVS-347

The class will be conducted as a nonfiction prose writing workshop in which students read and comment on each others' writing. After examining published works chosen as models, students will write essays in the nature-writing tradition, selecting approaches from a broad menu. Nature-writing includes literary natural history; "science translation writing"; essays on current environmental issues; personal essays based on engagement with land, water, wildlife, wilderness; travel or excursion writing with a focus on nature; "the ramble"; and other approaches. Students will learn how contemporary nature-writers combine elements of fiction, scientific descriptions, personal experience, reporting, and exposition into satisfying compositions. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

Academic Credit, Language,Writing & Rhet, DIST-HUMANITIES, DIST-FINE ARTS, INTER.DISC-ENV.STUDIES, Academic Evaluate Course, Academic Evaluate Course, INTER.DISC-ENV.HUMANITIES