COML 4697
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COML 4697
Course Description
Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025.
Thoreau, in 1841: "Nature is always silent and unpretending as at the break of day." He had just contrasted the robin's song with "the bustle and impatience of man." Why could silence contain birdsong but not human noise? This course explores the idea and representation of nature's silence—as a positive ideal; as soundlessness; as wordlessness; and as extinction. Heeding the environmental criticism that interrogates the contrast between silent "Nature" and noisy humanity, we will remain curious about what compels us in accounts of nature's multivalent silence. Concurrently, we will examine writings that attend to natural sound. Investigating silence, we will also strive to better understand what we mean, and what could be meant, by nature.
When Offered Fall.
Distribution Category (ALC-AS) (CA-AG, LA-AG)
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6697, SHUM 4697, SHUM 6697
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T A D White House 109
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Mueller, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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