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| 0662-1761-01 | From Arcadia to Cyber: Issues in the History of Ecological T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
This course introduces students to the historical roots of the ecological and environmental thinking. We will examine what is distinctive about this field ofhistory as it provides us with explanations to the contrasting discourses of the ecological thought. We shall examine the eco-centric approach in contrast to the techno-centric attitude by compering between Gilbert White's Arcadia and the 'imperial' approach represented in Carl Linnaeans writings. This dialectical scheme will guide us through the course and direct us to look closely upon various topics such as:
Romanticism and ecology; Green Colonialism; William Morris and the environment as revolution; the American frontier and the "Machine in the Garden"; Thoreau, Emerson and the birth of the ecological holism; counterculture and environmentalism and, Cultural Ecology as Cyber-ecology.
As these subjects of conversation suggest, the principle goal of the course isto introduce the student to some of the vital ideas, scholarly trends, andmethods that inform our efforts to gain historical perspective on matters of environment and ecology as cultural entities.
Romanticism and ecology; Green Colonialism; William Morris and the environment as revolution; the American frontier and the "Machine in the Garden"; Thoreau, Emerson and the birth of the ecological holism; counterculture and environmentalism and, Cultural Ecology as Cyber-ecology.
As these subjects of conversation suggest, the principle goal of the course isto introduce the student to some of the vital ideas, scholarly trends, andmethods that inform our efforts to gain historical perspective on matters of environment and ecology as cultural entities.