21W.775 Writing about Nature and Environmental Issues, Spring 2006

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Author(s)
Lioi, Anthony
Alternative Title
Writing about Nature and Environmental Issues
Date Issued
June 2006
Abstract
This course focuses on traditional nature writing and the environmentalist essay. Students will keep a web log as a journal. Writings are drawn from the tradition of nature writing and from contemporary forms of the environmentalist essay. Authors include Henry Thoreau, Loren Eiseley, Annie Dillard, Chet Raymo, Sue Hubbel, Rachel Carson, Bill McKibben, and Terry Tempest Williams.
Subjects
American nature writing
environmental journalism
environmentalist essay
MIT Department
MIT Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies
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