This course will use the lens of "nature writing" to explore philosophical questions about our place in the current environmental crisis. How is our situation related to our ways of seeing and connecting with the natural world? And how is it related to the shapes and processes of nature that are central to human experience, such as birth, death, hunger, or illness, for example? We will investigate the writings of such artists and thinkers as Albert Camus, Carlos Fuentes, Rebecca Solnit, Camille Dungy and Brian Teare. Through many different genres of writing and reading, we will explore how, individually and as a culture, we might respond to nature as responsible artists and designers to make art that matters.

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