Nassau
One Education Dr Garden City, NY 11530-6793
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The following is fulfilled by this course:
- Humanities
Nassau has listed this a core course in the following categories:
The core course can be applied to following SUNY Transfer Paths:
ENG 281
Nature in Literature
Prerequisites: ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 109.
This course examines literature that considers the relationship between human beings and the natural world. It includes works that focus on conservation and ecology. It also explores how science relates to literary art. Representative selections include the Bible, medieval poetry and plays, pastoral poetry, plays by Shakespeare, and such writers as Gilbert White, Mary Shelley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Darwin, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Hardy, Isak Dinesen, Farley Mowat, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, Barry Lopez, Leslie Mamon Silko, and Linda Hogan. Writing is an integral component of the course.
SUNY GE-SHUM; SUNY GEN ED-GHUM; NCC GEN ED-HUM, LIT
Offered: Spring