Spring Term 2020 FORESTS AND HUMAN FLOURISHING - 3596 - RLST 545 |
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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
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