Sections:	1144	1145	1146	1147	1148	
		1149	1150	1151	1152	1153
*Satisfies COAS Requirements for AHLA*
*Co-requisite-eng W143*

Whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.	
	-Genesis 2:19

***C146 satisfies AHLA and COAS, School of Business and School of
Education composition requirements.  There are 10 sections being
offered, please refer to class schedule for times and locations***

Since this primordial act of naming, humans have used many words in
essays, poems, and stories to try to understand the natural world and
their place in it.  In this course, we will examine how writers of
different eras from around the world have made sense of nature in its
diverse forms.  Is nature as violent as the lion or as peaceful as the
lamb, as beautiful as the rose or as stinging as the thorn?  Does
human reason reign over nature, or does impersonal natural law dictate
human fate?  Does civilization raise us above a natural state of
savagery, or does it create bestiality unknown even to the beasts?
Examining these and similar questions, we will often find that in
naming nature, humankind names itself.
This course is an introductory, writing-intensive course that
approaches literature through a comparative study of literary themes
in texts from different eras, cultural traditions and literary genres.
The course is open to all undergraduates and fulfills the COAS,
School of Business and some School of Education composition
requirements when taken in conjunction with W143.

***Requirements:  3 papers, a mid-term and a final***