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Spring Term 2020 FORESTS AND HUMAN FLOURISHING - 3596 - RLST 545
Registration for this term is over. Changes or corrections to registration now by petition only. Students should contact their academic advisor.
Approval of the instructor is required for registration.


Prerequisites/Notes: Instructor approval required

Catalog Description : This topics course offers advanced students a seminar in a topic related to a foundations/gateway course offered in the same term. Students engage with more challenging readings and pursue their own scholarship, presenting their research in the companion gateway course as the opportunity arises. Students may have previously taken the companion gateway course but may not enroll concurrently in that course. May be repeated when topic is different.

Topic for Spring term 2020: Forests and Human Flourishing
Religious traditions have employed trees and forests as an image of human flourishing. Several recent books have described the complex life of the forest and offered it as an entry point for thinking about perennial questions of human community. Readings will include Overstory by Richard Powers, The Song of Trees by David George Haskell, and The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben. Students will regularly visit a local nature reserve and develop a paper or creative project. Companion gateway course: RLST 205 Religion and the Biosphere.

Attributes: GER Humanities Div, 400-599 Advanced Course


Term

Spring Term 2020

Instructors

Martyn Smith

Course

RLST 545

Grade Mode

Standard

Title

FORESTS AND HUMAN FLOURISHING

Final Exam

Arranged

CRN

3596

Status

Active

Class Time

Arranged

Start-End Date

Apr 06, 2020-Jun 10, 2020

Campus

Appleton Main Campus

Units

6

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Maximum

Number registered

Enrollment:

Unlimited

3