https://studiegids.vu.nl/en/courses/2024-2025/L_AAMPALG026After completing the course, the full name of which is "Key Concepts in the Environmental Humanities," students are familiar with a selection of key concepts and theories in the Environmental Humanities;have knowledge of current debates in the field;are able to engage critically with several theoretical texts and have begun to position themselves within the field of Environmental Humanities;are able to identify and justify relevant case studies within the environmental humanities have acquired the necessary skills to write an Environmental Humanities essay.In this course, we study a selection of key theoretical positions in the Environmental Humanities. We discuss these texts in course seminars and apply the theories to case studies. Students are encouraged to engage critically with the texts, so that they begin to take up their own position in current debates in the field. Basing themselves in their reading for this course, they draft a proposal for a topic for the course Transdisciplinary Environmental Humanities (period 5-6).Seminars.Active participation, proposal for a course topic (pass/fail), final paper (graded).To be announced on Canvas.Key Concepts in the Environmental Humanities is a core course in the track Environmental Humanities in the RMA Humanities. It is open to students from the other tracks in this RMA. Other students need to contact the course coordinator, Kristine Steenbergh (
[email protected]).