CIP develops interdisciplinary course focused on sustainability: Ecocritical Reading and Environmental Writing in English

In 2021, CIP was granted the funds to develop a course in Ecocritical Reading and Environmental Writing to be implemented at Engerom. The funding was given by The Sustainability Science Centre under the 2023 project ‘Green education, research and societal engagement’.

The course is developed by Elżbieta Jolanta Wójcik-Leese and is an example of an interdisciplinary collaboration between the humanities and the scientific field. It thereby plays into the UCPH 2023 strategy concerning education with closer ties to research and focus on solving the major challenges of the global society – including the climate crisis.

The course features a series of guest lectures from researchers at the Center for Permafrost, Sustainability Science Centre, Centre for Sustainable Futures and Center for Applied Ecological Thinking. These lectures will, along with a variety of academic, literary, visual and artistic texts within the ecocritical framework set the stage for rethinking concepts such as ‘nature’, ‘human’ and ‘sustainability’. The goal is to reconceive the past (what have we done?) to answer, ‘what can we do/what can we become?’. This as a means of practicing stewardship, green transition and sustainability.

The course runs in autumn 2022 and you can read more about it in the UCPH course catalogue. Registrations are open until June 1.