Environmental Justice in the Arts Dr. Courtney Ryan is a full time lecturer for the Writing and Critical Inquiry Program. This semester, she is sharing some of her passions with students through a course titled Environmental Justice in Arts: TUNI250
What are some of the topics that you cover in your course? We begin by thinking about who has historically been excluded from US nature writing and why, before transitioning to environmental justice scholarship and art today. We examine artworks, plays, poetry, documentaries, TikToks, and music videos Dr. Courtney Ryan that creatively respond to ongoing environmental injustices related to climate change, food access, air quality, and fracking. Do you have any specific sustainability learning objectives for this course? The major objective in this course is for students to examine how environmental challenges intersect with issues of race, gender, sexuality, and class and how art can illuminate environmental intersectionality. By meeting this objective, students can approach sustainability issues in a more well-rounded way: rather than take a single-issue approach to a sustainability goal, they can think more holistically about who benefits from a particular sustainability initiative and who does not, and whether the initiative has long-term as well as short-term benefits.
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