Fall 2024 Honors Learning Community
Professors Tom Bowen and Marian Staats
MW 11:00AM-12:15PM, 12:30PM-1:45PM, Des Plaines Campus
Register for PHL 204 0H1 AND EGL135 (CRN: 31586 AND 31587)
Gen Eds: Humanities, Global Studies, U.S. Diversity Studies, Communications
Concentrations: Environmental Studies; Great Books; Global Studies; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Today’s environmental crises – from resource degradation and depletion, biodiversity and habitat loss, air, water, and land toxicity, and climate change – arise from partial, parochial visions attempting to compose our shared lives. Thinking critically and carefully about environmental issues requires critiquing dominant narratives and creating spaces for other perspectives to unfold and inform us. This Honors Learning Community addresses questions crucial to our survival by placing Native American literature, film, and music in dialogue with environmental ethics.
Explore Essential Concepts for Understanding our Contemporary Situation: Colonialism, History, and Land Justice; Identity, Culture, and Personhood; Justice, Community, and Sovereignty; Native American Resistance. This seminar is IAI certified and fulfills a Global Studies and U.S. Diversity Studies, as well as Humanities Gen Eds., and fulfills requirements for the Honors Program (“Core Seminar”) and the ESC, and Great Books concentrations.
Email Prof. Marian Staats with any questions: mstaats@oakton.edu
