HNRS 44

Society of Excess: On Waste, Consumer Culture, and Environment

• Literary and Cultural Analysis

Seminar, three hours. Designed for College Honors students. Examination of waste in both real and virtual worlds, looking in interdisciplinary ways at various cultural representations of trash set against backdrop of society of excess and environment constantly threatened by overflowing and mismanaged waste, including social and cultural responses to physical waste and cyber battle against Internet debris. P/NP or letter grading.