 ecocriticism. In ecocriticism, we're going to be studying literature and the environment, how those two interact, how people interact with the environment, how we define the natural world, how we determine the intersection between culture and the environment. We think about how literature and literacy itself, the symbology we create, how all of that functions to shape our relationship with the environment. In this course, you'll read essays, poetry, short stories, a novel, plays, and engage in a series of rich discussions in which we'll puzzle out how we interact with the natural world and what does that term even mean, the natural world. All of that and more, wrapped up to one deep bundle that we call ecocriticism.