This course focuses on the interpretation and communication of environmental issues and solutions from multi- and interdisciplinary perspectives. Using contemporaneous environmental topics as a foundation, this course introduces students to written, oral, visual, and quantitative communication for a variety of audiences and intents. Students will develop the ability to interpret environmental information from multiple sources, to synthesize that information for their own understanding, and to communicate that knowledge in ways appropriate to the particular objective and audience.

In this laboratory complement to ENV 201, students will use a variety of methods to gather and analyze different types of environmental data (e.g., quantitative, qualitative, spatial). Enrollment limited to 18. (E) Q

While focusing on topical environmental issues, students will learn how to gather, analyze and present data using methods from the natural and social sciences. Data will be drawn from multiple sources, including laboratory experiments, fieldwork, databases, archival sources, surveys, and interviews. Emphasis will be on quantitative analysis. Environmental topics will vary in scale from the local to the global. ENV 202 must be taken concurrently. Prerequisite: one semester of statistics. ENV 101 is recommended. Enrollment limited to 18. (E) Q

This is a full-year course.

Independent study for graduate students. Admission by permission of the Chair.

This is a full-year course.

In this course, we will consider how the Bible, Homer's Odyssey, and Shakespeare's The Tempest have been reimagined for different audiences, focusing particularly on the creation and use of contemporary adaptations for children -- both within and outside the classroom at different educational levels. We will read a range of Bible stories, stories from Homer's Odyssey, and Shakespeare's The Tempest, as well as adaptations of these stories for children and young adults, in genres ranging from picture books to longer narratives.

This capstone course offers an intensive, research-based study of a single important work of literature in English, seen in its social, historical, and intellectual context on the one hand, and in terms of its reception history on the other. Course may be repeated once for credit with different topic and instructor. Permission of the instructor required. Enrollment limited to 12 Prerequisites: two 200-level courses in either the reading of fiction or in 19th century British literature, or a combination thereof.

Admission via writing sample mailed to the English Office one week before the first day of classes.