Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: SUSTAINABILITY IN AMERICA

Department: First-Year Writing Intensive

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: What do we mean by "sustainability"? What or who, are we aiming to sustain? This course examines the American literary and cultural roots of sustainability, a vexed yet popular concept across the disciplines. It engages with demographics, food scarcity, rural life, subsistence agriculture, reproduction, urban development, and population control.