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HNRS 305. Imagining Climate Crisis. (4).
This course explores the challenges to human imagination and comprehension posed by our current climate crisis through the lens of "climate fiction" or "cli-fi," a genre of literature that addresses environmental catastrophe. Through analysis of literature in the context of contemporary literary debates, students will assess the power and limits of fiction to close the gap between human consciousness and planetary scale, cause and effect, near and far, and public awareness and scientific discourse, and ultimately ask, can fiction help save the world?.