How and why is art an empowering vehicle for successful environmental activism and for initiating environmental policy change? Through readings, lectures, seminar-style discussions, research, and field trips, this course will highlight specific environmental issues by focusing on select environmental art actions around the globe. Our investigations will center on topics of eco-feminism, and re-wilding ecology. Through this study we will begin to locate ourselves within the larger context of global environmental ARTivism by deepening our understanding of thinking globally and acting locally.Writing & Research in the Discipline courses engage with the writing and research skills relevant to the particular discipline at an advanced, upper-division level. The course will be closely linked to the upper-division work in the major program. Frequent writing assignments.

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