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LLCU 373 Indigenous Stories and Environmental Ethics Units: 3.00
This course conducts an interdisciplinary examination of Indigenous environmental ethics through the lens of expressive arts, with an emphasis on stories, relationships, knowledges, and changing environments, landscapes, or territories. A close examination of a meaningful range of elements (ethics and storied relationships, Indigenous land and women, poetry and activism, urban dwelling and poetics of decolonization, Indigenous futurism and apocalyptic landscapes) is conducted to develop a contemporary understanding of the environmental ethics at work in various sites of Indigenous expression.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 12 Group Learning, 72 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite (Level 3 or above) or permission of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.
Exclusion LLCU 395/3.0 (Topic Title: Indigenous Stories through Changing Landscapes - Winter 2022).
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Identify and describe the theme of environmental ethics and storied relationships in different works by Indigenous scholars, writers, filmmakers, artists, and activists engaging with changing environments, landscapes, or territories.
- Articulate and engage with the ways in which theoretical reflections and layers of knowledge can emerge through film, literature, and other forms of creative expression in relation to changing environments and colonial pressures.
- Using film analysis and close reading methodologies, interpret and analyze specific creative works in relation to past, present, and future ways of envisioning and conceptualizing the complex interactions between humans and all other living entities.
- Reflect on the land and place they inhabit in light of the works studied, and position themselves in relation to Indigenous peoples and the environment in order to better assess one’s individual and collective ethics and responsibilities.