124080 VK BEd 08a.3: VK Literature and Language Education (2023W)

This course explores literary fiction about nature and the environment. Focusing on, among other issues, the Anthropocene, cheap energy, multispecies justice, and climate change, this course examines how fiction engages with the problem of environmental crisis. From colonial representations of plants to sci-fi imaginings of the transforming world, literature addresses the ways humanity has been exploiting nature and the environmental, causing environmental degradation. This course foregrounds the importance of these images today, in the era of climate crisis. One of the chief goals of this course is to provide examples and outline clear ways of teaching environmentalism and multispecies justice through literary fiction at school.