Undergraduate Course: Literature and Ecology (LLLG07015)

Course Outline
School	School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	This is a for-credit course offered by the Office of Lifelong Learning (OLL); only students registered with OLL should be enrolled. This course will examine some of the finest literary writing on the natural world from an environmental perspective. The course ranges from the horticultural religion of Andrew Marvell, through early environmental anxieties in Wordsworth and Coleridge and revolutionary re-appraisals of manżs place in the nature order from Darwin and Thoreau, to the magnificent ecological writing of Steinbeck and Atwood.
Course description	Not entered

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered

Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students should be able to: ż discuss the basic tenets of eco-criticism; ż explain the special concerns of this approach; ż apply techniques of eco-criticism to the works studied on the course.