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Sep 01, 2025
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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
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EN 325 Nature Writing
(4 Credits)
Nature Writing is a 4 credit course designed for creative writing students in their 2nd and 3rd years. Our main goal as a community of nature writers will be to develop a basic literacy of the natural world. Our vehicles for accomplishing this natural world literacy will consist of writing in two distinct genres: the personal essay and poetry. Each genre affords us as writers unique opportunities to explore and express our relationship with nature. To support our writing we will read widely from the eco-literature canon, maintain a weekly journal, walk and observe the natural surroundings our campus and community, and engage in conversations. Throughout all of our explorations, the key question guiding our inquiry will be: How might the written word deepen our connection to place and nature? And why does this connection matter?
Introduction and Three Major Units:
1. Introduction: What is Nature? What is Wilderness?
2. Personal Essay Unit
3. Poetry and Place Unit
4. The Way of Haiku Unit
Prerequisite: EN 101
EN 212
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