Cities, Sea Level Rise and the Environmental Humanities

ENV 380, Cities, Sea Level Rise and Environmental Humanities focuses on sea level rise and its impacts on cities around the world, considering both the relevant environmental science and related literature and art. Given the global span of the texts engaging the issue of sea level rise, issues of culture and difference will be central to this course. It will consider how ideas, meanings, norms and habituations differ from one location to another and how these differences manifest in and are informed laws and social practices as well as arts and literature.